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A Spirit Airlines flight was repeatedly told to alter its course while flying near Air Force One over New York.

An air traffic controller admonished the Spirit pilots to "pay attention" and "get off the iPad."

The FAA confirmed that the required separation between the two aircraft was maintained and there was no incident.

What with a second bankruptcy in a year , a downsized network and soon-to-be-furloughed pilots, this may be a bad time for Florida-based Spirit Airlines to get on President Donald Trump's bad side.

But Spirit pilots, flying from Fort Lauderdale to Boston, were repeatedly told to "turn 20 degrees right" away from Air Force One's airspace over New York and "pay attention" on Tuesday, Sept. 16, as the president and first lady Melania Trump flew to

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