Lol, just thought this was humorous
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/ ... ne_040609/
F-16s following stolen plane
By Robert Imrie - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Apr 6, 2009 20:40:59 EDT
WAUSAU, Wis. — Two F-16 fighters were dispatched over Wisconsin Monday to track a single-engine plane that was believed stolen in Canada by a student pilot, authorities said. The incident caused the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison to be evacuated as a precaution.
Mike Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado, said that by 7:15 p.m., the Cessna 172 has traveled south over Illinois and was approaching the St. Louis area with the pilot continuing to refuse to communicate with any authorities.
“We don’t know what the motive is. I wouldn’t want to speculate on that. We are treating this with the most utmost seriousness,” Kucharek said.
Kucharek said the plane was stolen from Thunder Bay, Ontario, about 2:30 p.m. and the pilot had been flying erratically and had not communicated with the fighter pilots, who intercepted the plane at the Michigan-Wisconsin border.
The jets were from the Wisconsin Air National Guard. Plans were being made to “swap them out” with other aircraft Monday evening as the pursuit continued, Kucharek said.
The pilot had acknowledged seeing the F-16s but he had not obeyed their nonverbal commands to follow them, Kucharek said in a telephone interview from Colorado Springs.
“They have got his attention. Now it is a flight safety issue. That is why we are tracking him,” Kucharek said.
Kucharek said the plane was not thought to be a terrorist threat.
The plane had enough fuel to fly for nearly eight hours, but it was unknown how much training the student pilot has, Kucharek said. The Web site cessna.com indicated the Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seater with a range of about 790 miles and top speed of 141 mph.
In Madison, Department of Justice spokesman Bill Cosh said the state Capitol building was evacuated shortly after 5 p.m. as a precaution because of the airplane.
Many workers had already left for the day. Gov. Jim Doyle was not in the building. He had been in Chicago Monday.
Capitol police ordered everyone out of the building and told them to go at least a block away. Police cars with sirens on drove on the sidewalks by the doors of the Capitol. Others drove on the streets of the Capitol square, telling people to move away.
People were allowed back in the building about an hour later.
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Well, a not-so-funny reason why he stole the plane, a new one to me. This takes "suicide by cop" to a whole new level
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/ ... ne_040709/
Man nabbed after plane chased by F-16s
By Robert Imrie - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Apr 7, 2009 9:00:36 EDT
WAUSAU, Wis. — A man suspected of stealing a plane in Canada and flying erratically across three states was trying to commit suicide, hoping he would be shot down by military fighter planes, a state trooper said Tuesday.
Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was arrested at a convenience store in Ellsinore, Mo., shortly after landing the single-engine, four-seat Cessna on a rural Missouri road Monday night, ending a six-hour flight, police said.
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The plane was tracked as a “flight safety issue” and was not believed to be a terrorist threat, Mike Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said in a telephone interview from Colorado Springs.
The Missouri state trooper who arrested Leon said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the pilot told him he had hoped to be shot down.
“He made a statement that he was trying to commit suicide and he didn’t have the courage to do it himself. And his idea was to fly the aircraft into the United States, where he would be shot down,” Trooper Justin Watson said on ABC.
Watson said Leon apparently hitched a ride to the convenience store after landing on a highway and taxiing the plane to a side road. He didn’t appear surprised when the officer entered the convenience store to arrest him.
Leon said “he didn’t have any ID, but he was the person we were looking for,” Watson said.
He said Leon “gave me no indication that it was anything other than he was having personal problems and was in an attempt to end his life.”
“He did state that he thought at one time he was getting shot down, but apparently the Air Force were just shooting flares,” the trooper said.
Leon was in the Butler County Jail on Tuesday in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
The plane was reported stolen Monday afternoon from Confederation College Flight School at Thunder Bay International Airport in Ontario. It was intercepted by F-16 fighters from the Wisconsin National Guard after crossing into the state near the Michigan state line.
The pilot was flying erratically and didn’t communicate with the fighter pilots, Kucharek said at the Aerospace Defense Command.
The pilot acknowledged seeing the F-16s but didn’t obey their nonverbal commands to follow them, Kucharek said.
The plane’s path over Wisconsin 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.
The Cessna 172 continued south over Illinois and eastern Missouri before landing near Ellsinore, about 120 miles south-southwest of St. Louis.
The plane landed about six hours after the reported theft, and had enough fuel for about eight hours of flight, NAADC officials said.
“We tailed it all the way,” Maj. Brian Markin said. “Once it landed our aircraft returned to base.”
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told CNN that Leon was a native of Turkey who changed his name from Yavuz Berke and became a Canadian citizen last year.
Well, a not-so-funny reason why he stole the plane, a new one to me. This takes "suicide by cop" to a whole new level
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/ ... ne_040709/
Man nabbed after plane chased by F-16s
By Robert Imrie - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Apr 7, 2009 9:00:36 EDT
WAUSAU, Wis. — A man suspected of stealing a plane in Canada and flying erratically across three states was trying to commit suicide, hoping he would be shot down by military fighter planes, a state trooper said Tuesday.
Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was arrested at a convenience store in Ellsinore, Mo., shortly after landing the single-engine, four-seat Cessna on a rural Missouri road Monday night, ending a six-hour flight, police said.
Related reading
• F-16s following stolen plane
The plane was tracked as a “flight safety issue” and was not believed to be a terrorist threat, Mike Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said in a telephone interview from Colorado Springs.
The Missouri state trooper who arrested Leon said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the pilot told him he had hoped to be shot down.
“He made a statement that he was trying to commit suicide and he didn’t have the courage to do it himself. And his idea was to fly the aircraft into the United States, where he would be shot down,” Trooper Justin Watson said on ABC.
Watson said Leon apparently hitched a ride to the convenience store after landing on a highway and taxiing the plane to a side road. He didn’t appear surprised when the officer entered the convenience store to arrest him.
Leon said “he didn’t have any ID, but he was the person we were looking for,” Watson said.
He said Leon “gave me no indication that it was anything other than he was having personal problems and was in an attempt to end his life.”
“He did state that he thought at one time he was getting shot down, but apparently the Air Force were just shooting flares,” the trooper said.
Leon was in the Butler County Jail on Tuesday in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
The plane was reported stolen Monday afternoon from Confederation College Flight School at Thunder Bay International Airport in Ontario. It was intercepted by F-16 fighters from the Wisconsin National Guard after crossing into the state near the Michigan state line.
The pilot was flying erratically and didn’t communicate with the fighter pilots, Kucharek said at the Aerospace Defense Command.
The pilot acknowledged seeing the F-16s but didn’t obey their nonverbal commands to follow them, Kucharek said.
The plane’s path over Wisconsin 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.
The Cessna 172 continued south over Illinois and eastern Missouri before landing near Ellsinore, about 120 miles south-southwest of St. Louis.
The plane landed about six hours after the reported theft, and had enough fuel for about eight hours of flight, NAADC officials said.
“We tailed it all the way,” Maj. Brian Markin said. “Once it landed our aircraft returned to base.”
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told CNN that Leon was a native of Turkey who changed his name from Yavuz Berke and became a Canadian citizen last year.
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"In my day", I've lived through 3 major assassinations of very public figures in the US, a gunman shooting people from atop a monument/tower in a major downtown city, a 40-something year old convincing a teenager that shooting random people with a sniper rifle is a great thing to do, not 1 but 2 attacks on the WTC, and on and on. While I was in Germany, a bar I frequented was blown up because American GI's went there, a General was kidnapped in Italy because he was an American, friends-relatives-and other civilians are still overseas doing things others don't or can't appreciate "in my name so I can sleep soundly"...
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Funny? Forcing even a temporary evacuation of a city because we don't know who, what or why an aircraft is flying around? That pilot refusing all attempts to communicate?
Sorry. I guess I just don't have a sense of humor.
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I'm not saying my attitude is "correct" or others' is wrong.
Funny? Forcing even a temporary evacuation of a city because we don't know who, what or why an aircraft is flying around? That pilot refusing all attempts to communicate?
Sorry. I guess I just don't have a sense of humor.
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Wasn't it jsut a month or so ago, some financial fraud flew his plane over the Southeastern US, stuck it on autopiliot and parachuted out? What happened to the plane? Crashed into some house(s) if I remember correctly.
I guess I missed the humor there too.
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I guess I missed the humor there too.
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No, it crashed in water. I still remember.Ford Friendly wrote:What happened to the plane? Crashed into some house(s) if I remember correctly.
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I thought it was funny, too. The thought of those F-16's....flying just above stall speed with flaps fully extended...signaling to the pilot of the Cessna. That's funny.
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Several years ago a similar thing happened in Israeli airspace. The plane had flown from Egypt. The IDF shot it down. Glad the USAF has a better policy!
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Having flown this mission for "W" when he would visit the Crawford,TX ranch. I can tell you I would not be laughing having to launch at 0200 to track this guy down. The fighters will also not get that slow with the Cessna, after a few "get your attention fly-by's", we (UH-60 Black Hawk) are already launched with a SS Agent onboard and a posterboard held out by the crew chief to signal the Cessna pilot to tune to VHF Guard (121.5) and follow us to the nearest airport. If the Cessna becomes more of a threat, other actions are taken. This is a different case as the POTUS was not at risk.
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La. National Guard fighter jets intercept stolen plane from Canada
by Paul Purpura, The Times-Picayune
Tuesday April 07, 2009, 8:47 PM
Add another strange mission to the Bayou Militia's resume this year.
Four months after two Louisiana Air National Guard F-15 Eagle fighter jets intercepted a pilotless airplane over Alabama, the 159th Fighter Wing in Belle Chasse scrambled Monday to shadow a four-seat Cessna that was reported stolen in Canada and flown into U.S. airspace by a pilot who said he wanted to be shot down.
The suspect, Adam Dylan Leon, 31, a Turkish-born Canadian citizen and student pilot, landed on a highway in southern Missouri after winding through the Midwest.
The Bayou Militia pilots in the wing's 122nd Fighter Squadron who were dispatched from the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base on Monday evening darted to Missouri in less than an hour, meeting Leon about 20 minutes before he set the Cessna 172 down on a rural highway.
To their surprise, the pilots found the airplane emitting a transponder signal that made it easy to find and track, said Lt. Col. James Bong, who was dispatched with fellow pilot Maj. Kristopher Murphy.
The signal led Bong to speculate that Leon wanted to be shot down.
"We were in the position to do what we had to do, had the situation dictated, " Bong said Tuesday. "Given what he was doing, we were monitoring the situation at the time."
The single-engine Cessna was reported stolen Monday afternoon from the Confederation College Flight School at Thunder Bay International Airport in Ontario. After landing in Missouri about five hours later, Leon hitched a ride to a convenience store, bought a drink and waited to be arrested, according to news reports.
In a complaint federal authorities filed in St. Louis on Tuesday charging Leon with transportation of stolen property and illegal entry, Leon said he expected to be shot down by military aircraft, The Associated Press reported. Leon, who was not considered a terrorist threat, said he was being treated by a psychiatrist.
The flight prompted a brief evacuation of Wisconsin's capitol and warnings to commercial aircraft in the Midwest. In Louisiana, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and State Police activated a command center in response to the incident after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified the state about 5 p.m., according to a news release.
The plane entered U.S. airspace about 3:20 p.m., flying over Lake Superior into Michigan, and landed at 8:45 p.m., according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, in Colorado.
Minnesota Air National Guard F-16 Falcons initially scrambled, followed by F-16s from the Wisconsin Air Guard, who pursued the airplane into Missouri. Leon acknowledged the jets, but he did not respond to their "specific non-verbal commands, " according to a NORAD statement.
Bong and Murphy picked up where the Wisconsin pilots left off.
"He was just kind of flying circles up there in southern Missouri, " said Bong, who monitored the low-flying Cessna with his radar while circling above cloud banks at about 7,000 feet as Murphy topped off his fuel tank at a nearby aerial refueling tanker.
Bong said he assumed Leon was looking for a place to land. "We were going to take turns watching him, " he said.
On Jan. 11, Bayou Militia pilots Maj. Matt Rippen and Capt. Josh Fogle launched from the air station to intercept a Piper Malibu airplane over Alabama believed to be piloted by Marcus Schrenker, an investment adviser whose businesses were under investigation and who would later be accused of trying to fake his death to avoid his troubles.
Schrenker's flight plan showed he was traveling from Indiana to Destin, Fla., but he parachuted out of this plane over Alabama, leaving air traffic controllers thinking he was still aboard but unresponsive. Rippen and Fogle trailed the Malibu until it crashed in the Florida Panhandle.
by Paul Purpura, The Times-Picayune
Tuesday April 07, 2009, 8:47 PM
Add another strange mission to the Bayou Militia's resume this year.
Four months after two Louisiana Air National Guard F-15 Eagle fighter jets intercepted a pilotless airplane over Alabama, the 159th Fighter Wing in Belle Chasse scrambled Monday to shadow a four-seat Cessna that was reported stolen in Canada and flown into U.S. airspace by a pilot who said he wanted to be shot down.
The suspect, Adam Dylan Leon, 31, a Turkish-born Canadian citizen and student pilot, landed on a highway in southern Missouri after winding through the Midwest.
The Bayou Militia pilots in the wing's 122nd Fighter Squadron who were dispatched from the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base on Monday evening darted to Missouri in less than an hour, meeting Leon about 20 minutes before he set the Cessna 172 down on a rural highway.
To their surprise, the pilots found the airplane emitting a transponder signal that made it easy to find and track, said Lt. Col. James Bong, who was dispatched with fellow pilot Maj. Kristopher Murphy.
The signal led Bong to speculate that Leon wanted to be shot down.
"We were in the position to do what we had to do, had the situation dictated, " Bong said Tuesday. "Given what he was doing, we were monitoring the situation at the time."
The single-engine Cessna was reported stolen Monday afternoon from the Confederation College Flight School at Thunder Bay International Airport in Ontario. After landing in Missouri about five hours later, Leon hitched a ride to a convenience store, bought a drink and waited to be arrested, according to news reports.
In a complaint federal authorities filed in St. Louis on Tuesday charging Leon with transportation of stolen property and illegal entry, Leon said he expected to be shot down by military aircraft, The Associated Press reported. Leon, who was not considered a terrorist threat, said he was being treated by a psychiatrist.
The flight prompted a brief evacuation of Wisconsin's capitol and warnings to commercial aircraft in the Midwest. In Louisiana, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and State Police activated a command center in response to the incident after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified the state about 5 p.m., according to a news release.
The plane entered U.S. airspace about 3:20 p.m., flying over Lake Superior into Michigan, and landed at 8:45 p.m., according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, in Colorado.
Minnesota Air National Guard F-16 Falcons initially scrambled, followed by F-16s from the Wisconsin Air Guard, who pursued the airplane into Missouri. Leon acknowledged the jets, but he did not respond to their "specific non-verbal commands, " according to a NORAD statement.
Bong and Murphy picked up where the Wisconsin pilots left off.
"He was just kind of flying circles up there in southern Missouri, " said Bong, who monitored the low-flying Cessna with his radar while circling above cloud banks at about 7,000 feet as Murphy topped off his fuel tank at a nearby aerial refueling tanker.
Bong said he assumed Leon was looking for a place to land. "We were going to take turns watching him, " he said.
On Jan. 11, Bayou Militia pilots Maj. Matt Rippen and Capt. Josh Fogle launched from the air station to intercept a Piper Malibu airplane over Alabama believed to be piloted by Marcus Schrenker, an investment adviser whose businesses were under investigation and who would later be accused of trying to fake his death to avoid his troubles.
Schrenker's flight plan showed he was traveling from Indiana to Destin, Fla., but he parachuted out of this plane over Alabama, leaving air traffic controllers thinking he was still aboard but unresponsive. Rippen and Fogle trailed the Malibu until it crashed in the Florida Panhandle.
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Being born,raised and live in WI I found Madison being evact. Completely stupid and Funny. Im not going to Say what the joke up here in Green Bay is except we dont care about are capitol or govenor. N WI even for all recognizes Green Bay as its state Capitol, been that way for years. Its why we have our own Northcom Defense F-16's assigned to KGRB. We didnt overreact like a bunch of babys like Madison. This cessna flew right near green bay and we didnt even launch a single F-16, just a watching preying Jayhawk from the USCG. Guess being on leave for easter from gitmo has its perks.
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