17-year-old girl steals plane from Fresno Yosemite Int. Airport, crashes into building

fox11la ^ | 12/18/2019 | By Alexi Chidbachian

[BenLurkin]

Airport officials say around 7:30 a.m. a 17-year-old girl breached the fence of the airport and then entered a King Air 200 propeller driven aircraft and started the engine.

After starting the engine the aircraft began to move and pivot and eventually crashed into a building and fence, airport officials said in a release.

Once officers arrived on scene they located the female sitting in the pilot’s seat and wearing the pilot headset. Officials say she appeared to be disoriented and was uncooperative when being taken into custody.

[NorthMountain]

started the engine.

Well, there's your problem right there. King Air has TWO enginges.

[dp0622]

lol

NO ONE will EVER let me live that down!!

[dp0622]

Yeah there were “chairs” fitted for aliens that were NOTHING like the forms of humans.

They just got lucky :)

[Robert DeLong]

It’s bad enough when there is heavy rain, but raining lead is definitely across the line. 8>)

[dp0622]

lol

Stealing an F-35

STOP putting ideas into my head!!

:)

That HAS TO BE at least a 100 dollar fine. AT LEAST.

[Robert DeLong]

Only if they catch you. 8>)

[dp0622]

lol

I’ll be in a FAST getaway jet!

[cyclotic]

My brother had a student who did the same thing with a Young Eagles pilot. She let him do the entire flight. He had never been in any plane before

[Sequoyah101]

Sure looks like one of obummers people.

Forget getting any restitution.

[TChad]

“Hey Siri, how do I fly a King Air 200?”

[o-n-money]

You’re a regular Sully.

[fireman15]

It’s the landings that get interesting.

About 25 years ago, before my brother became a pilot for Southwest Airlines, he was a “check pilot” for the commuter airline that he flew for. The company leased blocks of time on multi-million dollar simulators not far from where we live and he gave other pilots refresher training focussing on emergency procedures. One night, he had some cancellations so he invited my dad and I up to see what he did. The simulators looked identical to the insides of the cockpits of the planes the airline had. They had hydraulics and sound that moved it around that made it feel very real inside. My dad got motion sickness after my brother started up the simulation of flying through turbulent conditions.

My wife and I started out hang gliding, but have had two airplanes for the last 25 years. The one is a “tail dragger” so landings can be a little challenging depending on the conditions, but the other plane has “tricycle gear” and it is almost like driving a car around that you steer with your feet. It is very easy to taxi around, land and take off. Steering with your feet becomes second nature very quickly especially if you were a kid who built your own downhill rolling “cars”.

[mad_as_he$$]

I used to live in Silicon Valley when Link was still big there. One of my room mates was an engineer at Link. Got time on sims. I got pretty good at taking off in a 727 and managed to land successfully a couple of times. One of the units was for an F-4, it was in for an overhaul before going to Germany. I managed to land on the Midway once but didn’t survive it! Hit the stern a bunch of times. Sigh, the good old days.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah but so will the pursuit posse. 8>)