WORTH REPEATING....WORTH REPEATING
"To: Cindy Another strange incident occuring in Paterson, NJ (home to a very large arab/muslim population) Stolen Ambulance Recovered At Movie Theater POSTED: 7:34 AM EST December 29, 2003 WAYNE, N.J. -- A private ambulance stolen in Paterson on Christmas night has been found abandoned in a township movie theater lot, but authorities say they remain baffled as to why the theft occurred. The ambulance, owned by Paterson-based Alpha Care, was found Sunday by a Passaic County Sheriff's Department officer who had been patrolling at the nearby Willowbrook Mall. Authorities had been searching for the vehicle since it was taken from the home of an unidentified Alpha staffer. The county bomb squad was called in as a precaution to ensure that the abandoned vehicle had not been tampered with, but no damage or devices were found. 4,250 posted on 12/29/2003 7:02:00 AM PST by freeperfromnj"
Speaking of flights...Adding on to Post No. 4282...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047820/posts?page=51#51 ===
To: Cindy; HairOfTheDog; bootless; snopercod; RogueIsland; ASA Vet; _Jim; Cicero; magslinger
I'm sure I've missed somebody but I pinged everyone I saw on this thread. Please take a look at the story that Cindy posted here (it's the same one that is currently linked at Drudge). It goes into great detail about how the incident happened.
The pilot's wife is ready to kill him, and he feels like an idiot.
Excellent reporting bt Blomquist, Celona and Neuman of the NY Post -- they beat Newsday on facts, and it's in Newsday's back yard.
If you read the links I posted, they advised pilots like Mr Langone to fully familiarise themselves with the airspace (which is complicated) and the procedures before flying the Hudson corridor. Poor Langone was trying it for the first time, on impulse and unprepared.
It looks like everywhere that Langone flew, except for when he busted the LGA Class B (TCA, you stuck-in-the-past geezers [grin]) he was legal, including his ring around the Statue of Liberty. You don't have to talk to anyone to fly in the VFR corridor -- one reason it's there is so planes without radios can get through NYC -- but it's a really, really, bad idea to do this without planning it first. A little study would have saved Mr Langone a lot of embarrassment and trouble.
In about a week or two he will have a letter from the FAA. He will not like what it says...
I'm a little concerned about Mr Looney of the NY Police wanting more restriction. These little planes are not a threat -- Langone's Mooney weighs a whopping 3000 lbs or so, of which probably 250 lb is fuel. We all remember the Cessna that smashed into the building in Tampa, and the Cessna that a nutball kamikaze'd into the White House. In both of these cases damage to the building was minimal, but the suicide attacker was successful at the suicide part.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
51 posted on 12/29/2003 1:21:48 PM PST by Criminal Number 18F