A Plane Stolen in Maine Falls on Montérégie Plain(flown across border without clearance)

Montreal.canada.com ^ | Sunday » September 28 » 2003 | ANGUS LOTEN/ AP

[fight_truth_decay]

'I don't know who taught him to fly, but they didn't tell him to check the gas'.

A 25-year-old man is facing several charges after his plane, reported stolen from an airfield in Maine, crashed into a Montérégie field yesterday morning.

The man, a Livingston, Me., resident, suffered only minor injuries in the accident.

He had been flying a Cessna without a pilot's licence or flight training, said Constable Manon Gaignard of the Sûreté du Québec.

For unknown reasons, the man left a private airport, near Turner, Me., about 6:30 a.m., running out of gas three hours later above St. Paul d'Abbotsford, about 80 kilometres east of Montreal.

He will appear in a St. Hyacinthe court tomorrow on charges of possession of stolen property, Gaignard said.

He will then have to answer to Transport Canada, Canadian and U.S. security officials and INTERPOL, having flown across an international border without clearance, she added.

"I don't know who taught him how to fly, but they didn't tell him to check the gas," Gaignard said.

aloten@thegazette.canwest.com

[fight_truth_decay]

6:17 PM

NEWS 8 Maine story is not giving a name either. The 25-yr old man's address is: "The Lewiston resident suffered only minor injuries in the accident. His name has not yet been released."

The Montreal article lists him as a resident of Livingston, Me.

Turner,Maine the location of the airfield from where the Cessna was stolen is located next to Lewiston. The city of Lewiston made headlines earlier this year with a Letter to the Somali population sent by the mayor of that city. That story has been made into a documentary.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Probably one of those cheesy moose smugglers.

[Sub-Driver]

too many molson's?

[Endeavor]

Al Qaeda tryouts?

[Nix 2]

A plane from Maine falls mainly on the plain...

Has a certain *ring* to it, eh?

[martin_fierro]

Curses, you beat me to it.

[Chad Fairbanks]

A 25-year-old man is facing several charges after his plane, reported stolen from an airfield in Maine, crashed into a Montérégie field yesterday morning.

It would have been better if it had said, "...facing several charges after the plane he was flying..." cuz it wasn't his plane.

[tet68]

"Out in the marsh reeds
a bird cries in pain.
As if having remembered
something better forgotten."

From the Japanese.

Or as I saw it in a truck rest stop.

Down in Savannah
a barge cries in vain.
As if having remembered
Potatos from kennebunk Maine.

[EGPWS]

He had been flying a Cessna without a pilot's licence or flight training, said Constable Manon Gaignard of the Sûreté du Québec.

For unknown reasons, the man left a private airport, near Turner, Me., about 6:30 a.m., running out of gas three hours later above St. Paul d'Abbotsford, about 80 kilometres east of Montreal.

Lucky fella' considering his perceived "IQ".

We, here in MPLS had a "fine young citizen" steal an aircraft from an airport and fly it to another airport 5 (flight) miles away a few years back...drunk and without a PL to do so. Unfortunately, the drunken teenager passengers (all 3 of them) died in the crash at their destination when the aircraft nosed into the runway. However, the drunken pilot survived.

[leadpenny]

This would be Breaking News if the US or Canada had scrambled some interceptors. Come to think of it, wonder why that wasn't done?

He probably was just trying to get noticed on FreeRepublic.

[Nix 2]

There once was a nutball from Maine
Who fancied himself in a plane
He tried hard to fly
But the plane went bye bye
And fell to the earth on a plain.

Or...
See Pink Floyd...

Into the distance a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field....

literally.

sorry

[fight_truth_decay]

[fight_truth_decay]

Yikes,the Map as come alive!!! My attempt...has failed.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

F-16.

Maybe that did happen. Makes more sense than "Oops, outa fuel. Think I'll glide to a safe stop."

These stories are often filtered. Any Maine residents with first-hand knowledge?

[Lessismore]

Perhaps it was one of those "stealth Cessnas", like that kid flew into Red Square in Moscow some years back.

[ellery]

Okay, who posted the keyword "eh?" Can't. Stop. Laughing.

[salmon76]

"A plane from Maine falls mainly on the plain..."

By jove, I think you've got it.

[8mmMauser]

Well I have a first hand knowledge of where it started because we just bought a house right there near the airport. But this is the first I heard of the event.

Maybe the guy heard we were moving there and got out fast.

[fight_truth_decay]

Let hired planes patrol coasts: report
Canadian air force too strapped for cash to help maintain
our sovereignty, navy says

Saturday, September 27, 2003

Canada's navy is looking at hiring private companies to conduct air sovereignty patrols along the east and west coasts because budget cuts and equipment shortages have hurt the military's ability to do the job.

The air force usually provides the navy with a number of Aurora surveillance planes to conduct such missions, but it has had to cut back on the number of flying hours because of a lack of money and aircraft.

Excerpt

A few hours after this story ran, a small Cessna stolen from a Maine air field piloted by an unidentified 25-yr old male makes a rough landing near Montreal.

[Mat_Helm]

All your cessna's are belong to us! HAA ha ha haaa...Make your time..............

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Hmmm. Timing's everything.

Wonder who owns those "private companies?"

Maybe...us?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

LOL. Good riddance.

He'd be borrowing your lawn mower in no time...and returning it empty.

[_Jim]

What appears to be missing is the story of how the Royal Canadian Air Force mobilized two F-16's and was about to intercept him before he could reach a major centre of population. I'm sure that happened.

Is what we have hear a classic case of "over-response and stimulus generalization" (referring now to the "9/11 effect" involving aircraft)?

I don't know if you people knoq it or not, but a small 'trainer' like a Cessana 150 is a *small*, light aircraft and therefore will only do damage roughly equivalent to what a Ford Pinto could do ...

[Nix 2]

Please repost in English or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Thanks in advance.

Am Yisrael Chai.
NIX

2

[thinktwice]

He will then have to answer to Transport Canada, Canadian and U.S. security officials and INTERPOL, having flown across an international border without clearance, she added.

Is this a free world, or isn't it?

[apackof2]

LOL, very cute!

[johnny7]

I don't know if you people knoq it or not,

No... I didn't knoq it. But I knoq the difference between a w and a q.

[_Jim]

It's able to cause more prominent damage, it's able to reach otherwise protected targets (like army bases and nuclear power plants)

... causing WOEFULLY insignificant damage in either case.

Try again. This one didn't win me over ...

[_Jim]

But I knoq the difference between a w and a q.

... about one keyboard's key-width to the right - you're d*mn lucky youy see as fewq typosq are youq do from meq, considering I skippedw 'typing class' in HSw and collegeq and *only* startedq 'hitting theq keyboard after theq advent of the firstq minis and microsw ...

[_Jim]

And Ford Pinto's can still kill hundreds of people if packed with explosives.

HERE'S where the two differ significantly - payload capacity. The Cessna 'trainers' can (literally) carry *only* a fraction of the weight a Pinto can be 'loaded down' with ...

[Triple]

A few questions:

What was muhommad's last name?

Which Muslim country is his ancestral home?

What was he going to do next (after landing the plane)?

(no apologies for the the educated guess about the perp. If I'm shown to be wrong, I might apologize.)

[sheik yerbouty]

A Somalian jihadist?

[theDentist]

O'er clouds and border
the Cessna flew
the training flight akimbo.

[Jack Wilson]

There was a doctor in Livingstone, I presume?

[fight_truth_decay]

Another small plane crashes in Canada:

Foul play unlikely factor in deadly plane crash: SQ
Officer, prisoner and pilot killed. Cloudy, foggy conditions cut visibility to one kilometre near airport: http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id=073DA9CB-5097-4968-B0D6-BE1C0F252AF4

[fight_truth_decay]

..as of today they still have not released the pseudo-pilot's name. Wonder why that is.

[brooklin]

Canada doesn't have F-16s. They do have F-18s.

[fight_truth_decay]

case closed..Mr.Jason Bagen (sp ?)was out on bail for Gross sexual contact...thus fled to Canada.

[Brian Allen]

<< What appears to be missing is the story of how the ... Canadian ... force mobilized two F-16's and was about to intercept him before he could reach a major centre of population. >>

More likely they were C F-16s.

The canuckies state-mandated institutionalized inferiority reality kicked in when they bought our F-16s and caused them to have to "improve" them with "modifications" that consisted primarily the addition a "C" ahead of the American "F."

Must be tough living in a squalidly-socialistic state whose population is entirely made up of other self-loathing, mean-spirited, EURO-peon-ized ego-maniacs whose collective inferiority complex is based in their hatred of one another and of America -- and of reality! Eh?

[Thinkin' Gal]

Runaway pilot faced sex charges


Canadian Press


Tuesday, September 30, 2003
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A man who crashed a stolen plane in a field near Montreal was facing two sex charges in Maine, police said Tuesday.

Jason Begin, 25, of Lewiston, Me., reportedly hot-wired a Cessna 150 from Twitchell's Airport on Saturday morning and ran out of fuel three hours later near Montreal.

Begin, who does not have a pilot's licence, suffered minor injuries. Police believe he may have taught himself how to fly with a computer program.

Sgt. William Gagne of the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Department said Begin was out on bail on charges of unlawful sexual contact and gross sexual assault.

A warrant has been issued in Maine charging Begin with theft and violating bail conditions. He will be extradited to Maine as soon as the Canadian courts are finished with him, Gagne said.

The plane, which was owned by Cedric Abbott of Buckfield and valued at $24,000 US, was a total loss, authorities said.

http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=8603FEC6-0EF4-402A-882A-9BFB31F1B5DD