President Trump was in the air recently en route to the United Kingdom for a meeting with the nation’s leadership, and as Air Force One flew over Long Island, the craft got just a little too close to another plane, a Spirit Airlines flight on its way to Boston.

The New York Times reports that the Spirit flight was given a stern warning by the air traffic control tower, which condescendingly told the pilot to “get off the iPad” and pay better attention to the path of the plane they were supposed to be flying. It is unclear whether the pilot was, indeed, looking at an iPad at the time the remark was made.

“Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right,” the tower initially told the flight crew, the newspaper notes. However, the pilot seems to have missed the directions, because the tower was forced

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