Teen Pilot Kept to Himself

AP via Newsday ^ | 1/6/02 | Pat Leisner

[BunnySlippers]

PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- The high school freshman who stole a small airplane and crashed it into a high-rise building Saturday was a quiet boy who kept to himself and bartered for his flight lessons by cleaning airplanes.

Flight school officials said Charles J. Bishop, 15, was well versed in the operations at National Aviation Academy, where he had been taking lessons since March 2001.

Bishop was presumed dead in the crash, authorities said Saturday night.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I wonder when we'll see a photo of the little Al Queda wannabe ...</i.

I think the truth will be more of a combination of posts 5 and 6.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Off.

[fnord]

Snare said Bishop was one of about 450 freshmen and remained largely unknown to administrators. "I did not know him and I've been in conversation with my five assistant principals and they did not know him either," Snare said.

sheesh, how big is this 'education factory'? Time to bring back smaller schools, where adults can keep an eye on kids, by name.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I would be really surprised to find a budding Jihadist here.

Probably a case of some disturbed kid who thought that in light of recent events, crashing a plane would make a bigger ststement, as dbwz suggested.

[SarahW]

He was just the right age for schizophrenia to begin to manifest - Depression, paranoia, delusions/voices. I don't know anything about the particular case, but if I were investigating, I would ask Q's about mental disease in the family; his withdrawn behaviour fits in with the prodrome or early onset of schizophrenia.

[BunnySlippers]

And the dad???

He's probably trying out a new gay lifestyle ...

[BunnySlippers]

his withdrawn behaviour fits in with the prodrome or early onset of schizophrenia.

I don't know much about the disease ... but don't schizophrenics usually kill OTHER people, not themselves?

[veronica]

FOX reporting he left a pro-Osama suicide note.

[F-117A]

"He rode my bus to school. He sat in the front row. He always had sunglasses on for some reason," said David Ontiveros, a 14-year-old neighbor...

An opposing softball pitcher always had sunglasses on.

"So people can't see into my brain."

[SarahW]

Nope

[LADY J]

Fox just showed a news conference with Tampa police.

A suicide note was found on the body stating that he acted alone in sympthy for Bin Laden.

No photo of him was shown yet.