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Stolen Cessna's Pilot Captured by Fighter Jets
ABC News ^ | April 6,2009 | By PIERRE THOMAS and LUIS MARTINEZ

Posted on 04/06/2009 9:58:38 PM PDT by cricket

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To: CodeMasterPhilzar

I’m stunned. Absolutely stunned. And mad!!

Why isn’t this guy and his plane a fresh, smoking hole somewhere?!?
Why doesn’t an F-16 have a freshly painted red maple leaf on it?!?

I understand that intel would want to talk with this guy, but after they figured out his personal history, its time to drop him like a bad habit, take HighRes pics of the crash zone, and past them all over the web with the caption: “Next?”.

What good is a 45 million dollar interdiction fighter if you don’t use it every now and again?

After 9/11, I never thought this type of thing would happen again. Amazing!


21 posted on 04/06/2009 10:43:19 PM PDT by stumpjumper
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To: cricket

LOL


22 posted on 04/06/2009 10:45:21 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: stumpjumper

I am afraid we as a nation have not learned from history. Which means I am afraid that we as a nation are doomed to repeat it.


23 posted on 04/06/2009 10:46:00 PM PDT by Marie2 (The capacity for self-government is a moral quality. Only a moral people can be free.)
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To: Ben Reyes

Story says they are left in airplanes for ‘students’. Thing they might change the policy?


24 posted on 04/06/2009 10:49:03 PM PDT by cricket (NOOOOOOO to Serfdom. . .)
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To: CodeMasterPhilzar
Two, if he's not close to a major population center, why take a life and destroy property? The guy flew over 5 states for 5 hours.
25 posted on 04/06/2009 10:53:19 PM PDT by franklog
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To: americanophile

It’s the Turkish Unitarians you’ve got to watch out for. Piss ‘em off and they’ll burn a question mark on your lawn.


26 posted on 04/06/2009 10:55:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Can't get enough of my snarking? http://twitter.com/slingsandarrows)
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To: cricket

Can a sidewinder lock onto the heat signature of a Cessna? I think we should have found out.


27 posted on 04/06/2009 11:16:41 PM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
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To: Ben Reyes
A pilot who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight school and was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets [. . .] A college official told a local newspaper that it was believed the pilot was not a student at the school.

So then what was he? An instructor?!

28 posted on 04/06/2009 11:23:03 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: cricket

He became a Canadian citizen in 2008, an changed his name from he original Turkish.

And now a Turkish national, wearing press credentials from Al-Jezirah (sp) (who denies he was a member of Al-J), is arrested after threatening to kill Obama with a knife.

Any dots to connect? And why would a Turkish national want to attempt assassination?


29 posted on 04/06/2009 11:27:37 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: Ben Reyes

There are about 12 different keys that fit about every legacy Cessna and Piper out there. Kinda low tech.

I hate it when criminals jeopardize general aviation.


30 posted on 04/06/2009 11:33:25 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: Slings and Arrows
It’s the Turkish Unitarians you’ve got to watch out for. Piss ‘em off and they’ll burn a question mark on your lawn.

LOL! But only after a lengthy discussion over tea and sushi on how to condemn you without appearing judgemental.

31 posted on 04/06/2009 11:38:19 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: driftdiver

“The fighter jets captured him after he started running? wow”

Yeah, I wonder how they “jumped across the fence”. That would have been a feat.


32 posted on 04/07/2009 12:01:07 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: Talisker

*snicker*


33 posted on 04/07/2009 12:28:51 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Can't get enough of my snarking? http://twitter.com/slingsandarrows)
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To: cricket
he landed on a Missouri highway late today and took off running...

It takes a lot of optimism to try to outrun an F-16.

34 posted on 04/07/2009 2:39:40 AM PDT by TurtleUp (Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
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To: cricket; Jim Noble; All

As Jim Noble noted here-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223818/posts?page=11#11

“The enemy learned something important tonight.

We won’t shoot first.”

A-yup! Nailed it.


35 posted on 04/07/2009 3:31:59 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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There were more than two F-16s involved in the chase. Nearby Volk field home of the WI AFNG scambled jets and for 3 hours there was a tense chase going on which resulted in the state Capitol of Madison being evacuated. Very likely the plane was headed to Chicago, and this may have been a probe. What is interesting is the ABC report quoting air school officials saying the 31 yr old Canadian/Turk was not one of their students. If he was or wasn’t is moot, one thing he was, was a competent pilot.

If this didn’t originate in Canada we’d never know what the hell was going on because their media is hell of a lot more open than ours.http://www.theusmat.com/


36 posted on 04/07/2009 4:00:15 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (2010 One year to a new census and congressional redistricting, we need a strong hand in the House)
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To: mosesdapoet

I haven’t heard ONE word about this on TV!!!!


37 posted on 04/07/2009 4:31:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: driftdiver
The fighter jets captured him after he started running? wow

I was going to say that those F16 upgrades are really something! We've got the best fighters in the world, if they can capture someone who's on the run from the cops (on the ground!)

And I thought it was impressive when those Iraqi soldiers surrendered to the helicopter!

Mark

38 posted on 04/07/2009 4:44:15 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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That plane might of gotten lost by flying under radar for a time, then popping back up because the jets from Volk field were all over the place during that time. In addition they might have lost it when it veered south and safely landed in Missouri. The FBI will be all over that area because whatever his name is might have had gone to a pickup point and would have escaped. Hence I believe this was a probe. By the way I’m listening to WLS Done Wade & Roma am 890 as I’m monitoring my PC and ABC news is not mentioning what they earlier reported. That the pilot might not have been a student or his Turkish name ...See how things are done


39 posted on 04/07/2009 4:46:54 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (2010 One year to a new census and congressional redistricting, we need a strong hand in the House)
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To: mosesdapoet

No I DON’T know how things are done!!! I am SICK and TIRED of NOT getting the FACTS from the NEWS!!! SICK I tell you!


40 posted on 04/07/2009 4:50:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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