[old-ager]

M-E muslim? Leaving this out is poor reporting, these days.

[sharktrager]

Another article gave the pilot's name, and it was pretty white.

I used to live in this town, and an arab training to fly for Mesa Airlines (which is what this kid was doing) would not go unnoticed.

The airport sits on a mesa right next to the police department, and is not popular among many pilots, who refer to it as the SS Farmington because of the similarity to an aircraft carrier without arrestor cables.