Man Tries To Steal Plane

SkyDog58 said:
ended up with a rap sheet.
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Sounds like he started with one ... "When the suspect turned his gaze toward the officers, two of them allegedly recognized Scott from past encounters."

" ... he didn't believe there was much more to the task than pushing buttons and pulling levers ... " See now, there's his mistake. American Eagle doesn't fly Airbus equipment. :p <jk>
 
I have flown into Texarkana quite a bit.... There is NOTHING going on there. I can see why he wanted to leave. FBO has popcorn though...... I
 
I think there was another incident there years ago, with the end result a RJ was damaged. See what I find.

Update: couldn't find anything
 
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Unit74 said:
I have flown into Texarkana quite a bit.... There is NOTHING going on there. I can see why he wanted to leave. FBO has popcorn though...... I
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Trying to get away from them ex’s!

 
Stingray Don said:
Asked about his lack of training as a pilot, Zemarcuis Devon Scott, 18, allegedly told Texarkana, Ark., police that he didn't believe there was much more to the task than pushing buttons and pulling levers
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Was his flight instructor's name "Calvin" by any chance?

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Put him in a sim and see what happens.
 
"It was about 2:30 a.m. when airport security personnel contacted police about seeing a man jump a fence and attempt to enter an American Eagle twin-engine jet."

Well, I'm sure glad that we've been putting fences around so many airports. :rolleyes1:
 
Other than ruining a good airplane, I kinda wish he had succeeded in stealing it. Of course I wouldn’t want the certain destruction of the airplane to hurt anyone else. I know, I know, I have a bad attitude.
 
Years ago I showed up for a flight lesson at KHEF to find absolute carnage on the ramp where the school planes were. I was confused as to how it happened as the destroyed aircraft (one of the flight schools 172s and a real nice Lance that was parked nearby) were between the fence and the rest of the undamaged aircraft on the ramp. Well, it appears that some drunks showed up and managed to get into one of Colgan's twins and get it fired up. I suspect they got one engine started and then ended up losing control as it taxied in a circle chopping up planes.

I actually got interviewed by the local TV news as to why the tower didn't see them. I pointed out that the tower closes at 11 and given the large prevalence of beer cans that this likely occurred after the bars closed. Old man Colgan claimed it was an inside job. "These things aren't easy to start... unless you know how and then they are easy." I pointed out snidely (not on the air) that there's a nice little book in the cockpit that had that information in it.
 
Thread about a month ago about a student pilot who was a member of a flying club who took a club plane without permission. Had a hard time landing it I think he made four aborted landings before he finally got it on the ground. Lots of damage, buckled fire wall and nose gear damage. Wondering how the charges of theft turned out???
 
Mike Smith said:
Other than ruining a good airplane, I kinda wish he had succeeded in stealing it. Of course I wouldn’t want the certain destruction of the airplane to hurt anyone else. I know, I know, I have a bad attitude.
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You really don't want that.. There would be even more worries about terrorism and planes crashing, and even more calls for security.
 
I just think it's funny that this kid actually thought he would be able to steal an RJ and fly himself to a concert. Let that sink-in for a second! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
Several years ago I showed up at a new job to start the ground school. As I pulled into the parking lot I saw many law enforcement vehicles. No one was allowed into the building. The company "executives" were all in a panic, running around bumping into each other. The police were sitting on their cars looking bored. Detectives and Florida B.I. folks were running around. I swear that helicopter that was circling the ramp was armed.

After asking around, I finally found out that someone had taken a plane, C-210, flew it for exactly 2 hours, then parked it back in the same spot, replaced the locks and topped off the tanks.

Ok, lets look at this again. This is a freight company that has 24 hour dispatch. To get into the dispatch office a person has to ring the doorbell. After being recognized, the dispatcher will buzz that person in. There is no way to get into the dispatch office as it locks from the inside and there are no handles outside the door. All the keys for the planes are in a locked cabinet in the office right next to the dispatcher.

The planes had a throttle lock that uses a key to unlock it. There was a prop lock that uses a different key to unlock. Even the door locks worked and it was required to lock the door when not in the plane.

So, we were to believe that someone entered the dispatch office unnoticed, opened the locked cabinet and took a set of keys to the plane, flew it for exactly 2 hours, parked the plane, replaced all the locks, fueled it then replaced the keys in the dispatch office again without being noticed. Ok, everyone still with me.??

A couple other new hires and myself started speculating that the last pilot of the plane wasn't very good at math and added the times up wrong.

After 6 hours of sitting there the other new hires and myself went to lunch. When we got back all the police were gone and it was business as usual...

Some one finally checked the last pilots addition......o_O:rolleyes:

This was the same company where the director of operations informed me that the FAA would not accept my log book because it was spiral notebook and not a log book bought from some pilot store.....:loco::lol::lol:
 
Zeldman said:
...After 6 hours of sitting there the other new hires and myself went to lunch. When we got back all the police were gone and it was business as usual...

Some one finally checked the last pilots addition......o_O:rolleyes:
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I can relate to that, because once a month I have to check the pilots' arithmetic at my CAP squadron.
 
When will these folks learn that if they want to steal a plane, steal one that flies itself... like an A320.




;):D
 
Ryanb said:
I just think it's funny that this kid actually thought he would be able to steal an RJ and fly himself to a concert. Let that sink-in for a second! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Welcome to the GTA generation (as someone who is 29).
 
Probably watched one too many episodes of Airplane Repo......
 
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