Air Force fighter intercepts plane near Trump golf course

AP  |  Bridgewater (US) 

A fighter jet intercepted a small general flying near Donald Trump's private golf club.

The announced that an jet intercepted a plane yesterday flying "without proper clearances or communications" in the temporary flight restriction zone around the president's Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course, where he is spending the weekend.

Continental says the intercepted landed at an airport in without incident, where met the pilot.

Trump arrived in Friday afternoon and is scheduled to depart for today. There was no immediate reaction from the White House, but Trump tweeted critically several times yesterday about Robert Mueller's investigation.

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First Published: Sun, July 22 2018. 07:15 IST