In a historic first for Cold War adversaries, U.S. , Canadian and Russian military officers directed fighter jets and ground controllers to test how well they could track an international terrorist hijacking over the Pacific Ocean .
A chartered American jet code-named Fencing 1220 sent a mock distress signal shortly after taking off from Anchorage , Alaska
The Associated Press had exclusive access to Fencing 1220, a plush executive-style Gulf stream whose passengers included a Russian Air Force colonel and a senior commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the joint U.S.-Canadian command that patrols the skies over North America .