Bidens moved briefly from Delaware beach house after small plane entered restricted airspace

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  • 05 June, 2022
  • 07:53
Bidens moved briefly from Delaware beach house after small plane entered restricted airspace

US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were moved from their Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home as a precautionary measure on Saturday afternoon after a small private plane entered restricted airspace, a White House official said, Report informs via CNN.

"A small private plane entered restricted airspace, all indications are by mistake, and precautionary measures were taken," an official told reporters Saturday. "There was no threat to the President or his family."

A White House official later added that the President and first lady were moved from their Rehoboth Beach home but are now back at their residence.

The Bidens had been scrambled to a different location without assembling the pool of journalists that typically travels with the President. The White House notified the traveling press pool of the incident nearly an hour after it occurred.

The Bidens are spending the weekend in Rehoboth Beach, in part to celebrate the first lady's birthday, which was Friday.

The US Secret Service confirmed in a later statement that the small plane had entered the restricted airspace near the Bidens' beach house by mistake.