Speaking of flights...Adding on to Post No. 4282...
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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
2 ARTICLE BRIEFS (exact quotes) FROM INTERNET HAGANAH:
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December 29, 2003
Qaida's underground railroad...
...making stops in Peoria and Champaign, Illinois. This from The Peoria Journal Star:
Former West Peorian Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri has been locked up as an enemy combatant, but his terrorist comrades continue to work in central Illinois.
Peoria and Champaign are part of a seven-city "circuit" that moves and disperses terrorists to specific sites across the nation, says Peoria County Sheriff Mike McCoy.
McCoy got that information at a recent FBI conference in Springfield. He shares that snippet of intelligence not to panic central Illinois, but to stress what the FBI told police at the conference: America, including much of its law-enforcement community, has not taken seriously enough the threat of al-Qaida in this country.
Posted by aaron at December 29, 2003 09:12 AM
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December 29, 2003
Gadhafi armed al-Qaida with bio-chem weapons
Thanks Moammar:-(
From WorldNetDaily:
Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi provided al-Qaida with chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction before changing heart and agreeing to destroy his arms program, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin has learned.
Libyan intelligence chief Musa Kussa told U.S. and UK spy agencies that tens of thousands of weapons had been produced at 10 secret sites in the country. Kussa has named hundreds of what he termed "sleeper" al-Qaida agents in Britain and the U.S.
Posted by aaron at December 29, 2003 09:10 AM