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posted January 05, 2002 03:23 PM
 Edited By: jimp on 5 Jan 2002 17:31
Plane Hits Tampa Bank Of America Building
15 year old person hijacks plane
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/05/tampa.crash/index.html
  
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WARBIRD
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posted January 05, 2002 03:33 PM
Plane Crash
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hondo
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posted January 05, 2002 05:07 PM
Stupid ass!
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jimp
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posted January 05, 2002 05:29 PM
Macdill
It blows my mind that he flew over Macdill AFB, and they had to scramble jets from Homestead 300 miles away !
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FNFAST
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posted January 05, 2002 06:01 PM
was he a raghead?
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fish_antlers
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posted January 05, 2002 07:36 PM
seems to be a copycat teenage angst thing.... to bad that little shit did that... just caused big-heep trouble fer his parents....
what an ass.
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posted January 07, 2002 01:22 PM
PILOT VOICES SUPPORT FOR BIN LADEN
Police: Tampa pilot voiced support for bin Laden
Crash into bank building a suicide, officials say
January 7, 2002 Posted: 1:07 PM EST (1807 GMT)
TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- A note
written by the 15-year-old boy who
crashed a Cessna into a Tampa office
building indicated he supported Osama
bin Laden and that the act was
deliberate, authorities say.
Charles J. Bishop, who took the plane on
an unauthorized flight across Tampa Bay,
died at the scene of Saturday's crash into
the 42-story Bank of America Plaza
building. He apparently made no attempt
to avoid the structure, witnesses said.
"I would characterize it as a suicide," said
Tampa Police Chief Bennie Holder.
The note, which was found in the
wreckage of the plane, "clearly stated that
he had acted alone, without any help from
anyone else," Holder said. "He did,
however, make statements expressing his sympathy for Osama bin Laden and the
events which occurred September 11, 2001." Several of the pilots involved in those
attacks trained at Florida flight schools.
"We have heard, in talking with some people, that
he often mentioned being of Arab descent and we're
following up on that," Holder said. "I believe his
father was part Arab, I'm not exactly sure, but we
are checking that out." Holder said he believed the
teenager had no contact with his father.
Authorities have no information to support any
connection between Bishop and any terror
organization, Holder said. "At this point, there is no
reason to suggest anyone else was involved."
Bishop had few friends, Holder said. "He was very
much a loner. From his actions, we can assume he
was a troubled young man."
The investigation is continuing, he said.
Authorities removed the computer belonging to
Bishop from his house and will check it for possible
clues to his motive, Holder said.
Bishop, who had taken flight lessons for two years,
had gone to the private-plane section of the St.
Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport,
accompanied by his mother and grandmother. His
instructor left him at the plane to perform a preflight inspection, authorities said.
He had no authority to get in the plane alone, a government transportation official
said.
A ninth-grader at East Lake High School near Tarpon Springs, Florida, Bishop
should have had an instructor in the plane with him, said Pinellas County Sheriff's
Department spokesman Sgt. Greg Tita.
Once he was alone in the plane, a Cessna 172, he started the engine and took off
without permission around 5 p.m. EST.
When the plane took off, the instructor contacted the St. Petersburg airport's
air-traffic control tower, which then notified Tampa International Airport, Tampa
police said. The St. Petersburg control tower also immediately notified MacDill Air
Force Base since the Cessna was headed its way, said Sgt. Chris Miller, MacDill
public affairs officer.
After a five-minute flight over Tampa Bay, the plane entered MacDill Air Force
Base's restricted airspace and flew over the runway about 100 feet off the ground,
Miller said. The student did not appear to be making an attempt to land nor did the
plane circle or fly erratically, he added. MacDill is the home of the U.S. Central
Command, which directs the U.S. forces operating in Afghanistan.
Helicopter chase
MacDill contacted the U.S. Coast Guard, which had a helicopter on routine patrol
in the vicinity, and asked it to investigate. The helicopter caught up with the plane
near Peter O. Knight Airport, about 14 miles east from where the Cessna took off,
said Coast Guard spokesman Paul Rhymand.
Minutes before the crash, the helicopter pilot made direct eye contact with the
student through the chopper's open side door as crew members gestured for Bishop
to land the plane, police said. It was not clear what his response was.
Beyond making gestures, "There's not much a helicopter can do," said Coast Guard
spokeswoman Lt. Charlotte Pittman. She was sure the youth saw the crew's hand
gestures, Pittman said.
Soon after, the plane crashed into the Bank of America building. The plane's wings
fell to the ground, but the fuselage stuck in the building's southwest corner on the
28th and 29th floors. It was removed from its precarious perch Sunday morning,
and local authorities declared the building safe.
Jets on patrol
After being notified Saturday by the FAA, the North American Aerospace Defense
Command ordered two F-15 combat jets at Homestead Air Force Base in Miami to
intercept the Cessna around 5:15 p.m., NORAD Capt. Kirstin Reimann said.
The F-15s arrived on the scene too late to
intervene, a Homestead spokesman said.
The jets flew combat air patrol over the
area until 7:30 p.m. as a precaution,
Reimann added.
Several employees of the Tampa Club, a
business and dining club, were on the top
two floors of the Bank of America building
when the plane crashed. There were no
injuries in the building, which was
evacuated.
Though the plane leaked fuel, it did not
catch fire. Firefighters inside the building
sprayed the area with foam.
Authorities evacuated the street below the bank building, which in the heart of the
city at 101 E. Kennedy Blvd. Commercial airports in Tampa and St. Petersburg
briefly suspended operations, but resumed service within about an hour.
President Bush was briefed on the incident, as well as two other crashes involving
small aircraft Saturday afternoon. Federal authorities said the Florida crash was not
related to two others in California and Colorado.
The Cessna, a 2000 model, is owned by National Aviation Holdings of Clearwater,
Florida, according to Landings, a Web site that tracks information on aircraft.
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pat830
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posted January 08, 2002 05:51 AM
Hopefully he died before he reproduced.
We don't need any extra raghead sympathizers in this world. At least no one else was killed.
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