wrote:

President Nixon once flew aboard a civil airliner from DC to California
when the oil crunch first hit. It was to show sympathy with the common
folk. It was well-covered by the media . I guess you're not much of a
newsman.

It was a flight on American Airlines as a PR stunt. That is all I could
dig up.

And... AF1 flew directly behind the aircraft for the entire trip. I did
see the call sign for that flight, but I can not remember what it said.

--
Mike Flyin'8