Stolen Cessna Chased By F-16's

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Reported stolen from Ontario, Canada around 2:55PM, crossed the border around 3:25 PM, picked up by the F-16's around 4:43 PM, just landed about 8:45 PM? Is that possible in a 172? That is alot of fuel.

Landed off airport near St. Louis, MO.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7273710&page=1

Student pilot!? I wonder if he misunderstood his instructor to see how many (or how few) FARS to break in one flight? If he files a NASA form does he get off from the FAA? In any event, he is gonna have some splannin to do. I'm kidding of course.:lol::lol::lol:

Heard on FOX News, confirmed by ABC news link.

More to come, I'm fairly sure. :ihih:
 
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I wonder if he filed a flight plan. :thumbsup:

I wonder if he just got sick of Canada and wanted to see what a real socialist country looks like. :lol:

Maybe he just got lost? :wink2:


:cheers:
 
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The plane landed in the town of Ellsinore, population 360, in southern Missouri, a dispatcher with the Carter County Sheriff's Office said.

A spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that about 9:20 p.m. ET, the Cessna was flying over southern Missouri, some 20 miles from the Arkansas border, "holding steady" at 3,000 feet -- down from the earlier altitude of 14,000 feet.

The NORAD spokesman, Mike Kucharek, said military pilots who intercepted the Cessna had tried repeatedly to get the pilot's attention and at one point, the pilot appeared to acknowledge that he saw the other aircraft.

"He looked at them," Kucharek said.

But the pilot had not communicated with NORAD or the Federal Aviation Administration, Kucharek added later in the evening. At 9:20 p.m., the pilot was believed to have had roughly 30 minutes of fuel left, Kucharek said.

Officials were "allowing this pilot to play his hand" because they "don't want to provoke the situation," Kucharek said.

A federal law enforcement official told CNN the pilot is a naturalized Canadian citizen, but declined to give his name or country of origin. The source said the pilot was a flight school student for a "brief" period and only clocked a few hours of flight time.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/06/stolen.plane/index.html
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Maybe Chip or Diana can join in the search.
 
mikea said:
Worse than that! HE DIDN'T TALK TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL! How is such a thing even possible? :skeptical:
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And he might not have used oxygen at 14,000!
Both Lt. Cmdr. Gary Ross of NORAD and Brown of the FAA said the 14,000-feet altitude is above the level at which the FAA requires use of oxygen. Brown said it was not clear whether the Cessna had supplemental oxygen on board.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/06/stolen.plane/index.html

Wait, maybe he's going to use the hypoxia defense like the guy who jumped out of his airplane.
 
Looks like he ran it pretty close to empty, 5 hours of flight time in a 172 is about 50 gallons. My POH on a 1977 172 can go 5-7.2 hours depending on power settings. He was getting low on gas and it was getting dark!
 
"A few hours of training" and he landed it OK on a dirt road? Who is this guy, Bob Hoover?

Maybe the kid kept flying because he didn't know how to land?
 
I see highway 60 passes right by Sikeston. Maybe he just wanted some throwed rolls? :lol:
 
Maybe we'll see this guy getting busted on COPS!

Badboy Badboys...Whatcha gonna do when they come for you.......
 
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mikea said:
Maybe Chip or Diana can join in the search.
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Sure! If he'd come closer I would. :D He's going to be cold out there tonight, but maybe he's used to the cold. ;) It's kinda hilly out where he is...might not be too hard to get lost on purpose on foot in those hills. But, if all he has is Canadian money, it might be a dead giveaway to the locals.
 
So he was either really good at holding altitude:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-stolenplane said:
The aircraft had stayed at a "fairly constant altitude his entire flight," at around 14,500 feet, [Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration] said. There was no way of knowing the male pilot's intent because he hadn't communicated with anyone.
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or really bad:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/06/stolen.plane/index.html said:
A spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said the pilot flew "erratically" over the course of the afternoon, at time reaching 14,000 feet in altitude, then dropping as low as 3,000 feet.
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And it's really idiotic that they evacuated the WI state capitol at Madison!
 
mikea said:
He landed on a dirt road in MO and ran. And he was Canadian.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-stolenplane,0,4366883.story
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And it's really idiotic that they evacuated the WI state capitol at Madison![/quote]

If he was fleeing Socialism, Madison was'nt the place to go .:lol:
 
Both Lt. Cmdr. Gary Ross of NORAD and Brown of the FAA said the 14,000-feet altitude is above the level at which the FAA requires use of oxygen. Brown said it was not clear whether the Cessna had supplemental oxygen on board.
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Really? Maybe the FAA needs to read its own rules....or the media probably just got it wrong as usual.
 
My God! It's the advance party for the invasion! Run for the hills ! ! !
 
ABC News: " How could this have happened ? " "It raises SERIOUS security concerns !"
 
The approaching flight prompted a brief, precautionary evacuation of the Wisconsin capitol in Madison, although there were few workers in the building at the time and the governor was not in town.
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Seriously?

Sorry, but this is wussy-dom of the first order.

Good grief.
 
The approaching flight prompted a brief, precautionary evacuation of the Wisconsin capitol in Madison, although there were few workers in the building at the time and the governor was not in town.
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dmccormack said:
Seriously?

Sorry, but this is wussy-dom of the first order.

Good grief.
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Maybe they got the plane confused with the Mighty C-150? They do look similar at a quick glance. Fear me!
 
jpflys said:
ABC News: " How could this have happened ? " "It raises SERIOUS security concerns !"
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"When we return...Dihydrogen monoxide...is it waiting to kill you and your family!?!? Stay tuned..."


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Two questions come to mind: How could he go for so long without needing to take a leak? At my age I have to plan car trips around the availability of rest areas, or bring a stash of Gatorade bottles in the plane. Also, do you think filing a NASA form would do much good for him?
 
Well it looks like the MO State Patrol put an end to his run for freedom. Busted this menace to society in about an hour after he ran for it.

Seriously, doesn't this guy read the paper? He lands in rural MO and thinks he can get away? There are no guns allowed in Canada, but that ain't true here....yet, and will never be true in rural MO. I could just see the boys at the local bar forming a posse to go catch the invading outlaw pilot. He's lucky to have his virginity in-tack!:ihih:
 
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He was hijacked by a bunch of those canadian extremeists and forced to take them into the US, and land near a golf course.:devil:

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First it was canadian geese who brought down an american plane, now a canadian student pilot invades our airspace... Thats it... We need border control :hairraise::ihih::crazy::crazy:.....
 
I'm not sure who is the more stupid in this scenario... the actor or the reporter.

And, maybe Cessna should be shut down for producing a means of crossing our border and entering so deeply. Boeing will be next.

By the way, he's lucky he didn't fly into Rabun County, Georgia. :eek:
 
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Imagine one of those FILLED with fuel! What a conflagration!
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Yea...

If memory serves me correctly, a student pilot drove a 150/152 into a high rise building in Florida? not long after 9-11. Besides killing himself I think he broke some windows. Anyone recall that and/or have a link to a story?
 
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< Yakov Smirnoff >
America! What a country!

I fly south to visit and they send wonderful jets to greet me!

(What is "squeel like a peeg?")

</ Yakov Smirnoff >
 
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Trapper John said:
"When we return...Dihydrogen monoxide...is it waiting to kill you and your family!?!? Stay tuned..."


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For more on this, see www.dhmo.org.

Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
dmccormack said:
Imagine one of those FILLED with fuel! What a conflagration!
Yea...

If memory serves me correctly, a student pilot drove a 150/152 into a high rise building in Florida? not long after 9-11. Besides killing himself I think he broke some windows. Anyone recall that and/or have a link to a story?
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If I remember correctly, it was a C-172 that he stole. Even bigger. Same result. Destroyed airplane, dead idiot.
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