2003-07 · NASA ASRS report 587950
C150 PLT ENTERED TFR AIRSPACE AND WAS INTERCEPTED BY MIL F16 ACFT.
UPON FLYING THE LAST HR OF MY 6 HR FLT IN THE 98 DEG HEAT I TUNED IN DFW ATIS. AT THE END OF THIS ATIS THERE WAS A NOTAM RPTED AROUND A 30 MI RADIUS OF THE COWBOY VOR FOR A TFR. UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AREA I LOOKED FOR THE VOR ON THE MAP. UNFORTUNATELY WHILE FLYING THE AIRPLANE I COULD NOT FIND THE COWBOY VOR. I DECIDED TO CONTACT THE DFW APCH TO FIND OUT THE DETAILS. I TRIED SEVERAL FREQS; BUT COULD NOT RAISE THE DFW APCH. NEXT I TRIED REDBIRD TWR ALSO TO NO AVAIL. AT THIS POINT I DSNDED BELOW THE CLASS B RING AND HEADED TO THE MESQUITE ARPT. DURING MY APCH TO MESQUITE I WAS INTERCEPTED BY AN F16. THE F16 WAS FLYING SUCH A WIDE PATTERN I DID NOT PERCEIVE THIS AS AN INTERCEPT. I FLEW CLOSE TO SOME B52'S NEAR SHREVEPORT; SO I THOUGHT THE F16 WAS SHOOTING APCHS SOMEWHERE NEARBY. AT THIS TIME I WAS RUNNING MY DSCNT CHKLIST AND CALLING THE MESQUITE UNICOM. UPON LNDG I WAS NOTIFIED OF MY TFR VIOLATION. DUE TO THE UNFAMILIARITY OF THE AREA; THE HEAT; APCH NOT RESPONDING; AND HUMAN ERROR THE TFR WAS BROKEN.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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