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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Russia, NORAD shadow jet in Pacific hijack drill By DAN ELLIOTT,Associated Press Writer - Monday, August 9 Send IM Story Print ABOARD FENCING 1220 – A chartered jet with American, Russian and Canadian military officers aboard played the role of a hijacked plane in an unprecedented drill Monday as pursuing fighter planes flew close enough to see pilots' helmets silhouetted against the blue sky. Flying east across the Pacific starting Sunday from Anchorage, Alaska, the Gulfstream jet _ code-named Fencing 1220 _ was shadowed first by U.S. F-22s and later by Russian Su-27 and MiG-31 fighters in the first joint exercise of its kind among the former Cold War adversaries. "To see those Russian fighters pull up right on time, to hear the Russians (talking on the radio), it's just incredible," said U.S. Army Maj. Michael Humphreys, a NORAD spokesman and the senior American officer on the jet. The Russian Air Force representative taking part, Col. Alexander Vasiliev, knew the day would come when the two sides would work in concert, but "never thought it would be him sitting on the aircraft," his translator said. Vasiliev declined to be quoted directly, saying he would leave that to an official Russian spokesman at a news conference planned later in the week. The exercise running through Tuesday, called Vigilant Eagle, was designed to see how well the two sides could coordinate during a hijacking. About 10 minutes after taking off from Anchorage, the Gulfstream's civilian pilots radioed an agreed-upon digital code, 5475, to civilian air traffic controllers in Alaska to signal that the plane had been "hijacked." Ben Rhodes, one of the pilots, followed up with a voice radio call: "Fencing 1220 squawking 5475 for the exercise." NORAD then dispatched the F-22s and an E-3 Sentry _ an airborne surveillance and command post _ to shadow Fencing 1220. The Gulfstream was still over Alaska at about 38,000 feet (11,500 meters) when the angular, silver F-22s drew alongside, about 10 minutes after the hijack signal. They edged to within 500 feet (150 meters) and after about 30 minutes, they turned back to refuel and didn't return. On the ground and in the air, NORAD commanders and civilian aviation officials were communicating with their Russian counterparts. About two hours after the F-22s fell back, while the Gulfstream was over the Pacific, NORAD told Russian officers the plane was theirs to follow. Two Russian Su-27 fighters painted pale blue and white soon pulled up from behind Fencing 1220 and hovered off the right side, red stars clearly visible on their wings and twin tails. They shadowed the Gulfstream for about 90 minutes, before banking sharply to the left and peeling away. Three other Russian fighters, a MiG-31 and two Su-27s, later shadowed the Gulfstream during the 7 1/2-hour flight. All the fighters were unarmed, a condition of the exercise. Canadian Forces Col. Todd Balfe, NORAD's deputy commander for the Alaska region who was also aboard the flight, acknowledged it may seem "incongruous" that the exercise was taking place amid tension between his country and Russia over recent Russian bomber flights probing the northern boundaries of Canadian airspace. But terrorism transcends national boundaries, he said, and exercises like this could lay the foundation for cooperating on other issues as well. "So we'll start out with this mission, and if that leads into other missions, for example, probing of air spaces, well, that would be a great thing as well," he said. Vasiliev said it was too early to evaluate the exercise, but everything had gone according to schedule. Balfe said things went well from his viewpoint, but he had not talked with NORAD and civilian officials on the ground. A full-scale evaluation will be made sometime after the second leg of the exercise, scheduled to end Tuesday in Alaska after the Gulfstream flies back across the Pacific, shadowed first by the Russians and then NORAD. 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