I’m happy to see that Louis Caldera’s decision to fly Air Force One over the southern tip of Manhattan has cost him his job as director of the White House Military Office.

The White House released the resignation letter and a seven-page review of how the flyover was planned by several government agencies without anyone raising caution flags that the flight could spark fears of another terrorist attack in Lower Manhattan. A photograph of the plane, flying low above New York Harbor, also was released on Friday by the White House.

…The Air Force estimated the flight cost taxpayers $328,835, including $35,000 in fuel for the plane and the two fighter-jet escorts.

Have these people never heard of Photoshop?

One of the reasons Caldera didn’t object more to the flyover: He apparently hadn’t checked his e-mail in several days, saying that he’d left work early several days in a row due to back pain.

If ever someone deserved to be fired….

And if that sounds mean, watch this video of the flight, and imagine that you had been in southern Manhattan on 9/11, and were there on this day as well.