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To: Velveeta; KylaStarr; All
Talk about closing the barn door after the horse is gone~~

If you think it couldn't happen to you at your small, safe, everyone-knows-everyone-else local airport, Albert Paul, of Bergen County, N.J., would beg to differ. Nearby Lakewood Municipal Airport is planning to install a perimeter fence and a security gate after Paul's Cessna was hot-wired and flown halfway across the country to Minnesota, via Canada, last August. Richard DeMartini was arrested a month later after the plane was found at Springfield Municipal Airport near his Minnesota home. It had been only slightly damaged. Lakewood Township Airport Authority chairman Richard Orne said they're working on putting up an eight-foot chain-link fence topped with barbed wire around the airport and installing an electronic passkey gate in direct response to the theft. He said the airport authority board members were "flabbergasted" by the theft, which apparently happened in front of an airport employee. Although authorities quickly ruled out terrorism as a motive for the theft, the airplane's owner is wondering why he wasn't interviewed by security agencies, and he's also wondering how the aircraft was allowed into Canada on a refueling stop. http://www.avweb.com/newswire/9_46a/briefs/186024-1.html

9,953 posted on 01/13/2004 8:08:31 PM PST by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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To: All
Excuse my lack of know how, but how do I post a link? I just came across an article about an ebola like virus outbreak discovered on the Afghan/Pakistan border. (I usually just lurk!)
9,955 posted on 01/13/2004 8:17:55 PM PST by crabbie
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To: WestCoastGal
Link for post no. 9953

http://www.avweb.com/newswire/9_46a/briefs/186024-1.html
9,960 posted on 01/13/2004 8:31:34 PM PST by Cindy
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