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“Stolen Canadian plane lands in Missouri”
Updated Mon. Apr. 6 2009 11:09 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

SNIPPET: “The pilot took a single-engine Cessna 172 from a Thunder Bay aviation school and soon crossed into U.S. airspace. Authorities scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to track the aircraft as it made its way over Wisconsin and Illinois.

Nearly eight hours later, at about 10 p.m. ET, the pilot landed on a dirt road in the southern Missouri town of Ellsinore...”

SNIPPET: “Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation then arrested 31-year-old suspect Yavuz Burke, a native of Turkey who became a Canadian citizen last year. He was formerly known as Adam Leon.”


46 posted on 04/06/2009 8:15:32 PM PDT by Cindy
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SNIPPET: “Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation then arrested 31-year-old suspect Yavuz Burke, a native of Turkey who became a Canadian citizen last year. He was formerly known as Adam Leon.”

The FBI was hot on his heels and he decided to fly to them!

62 posted on 04/06/2009 8:33:57 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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southern Missouri town of Ellsinore...”

Hey, he's getting close to my neighborhood..

65 posted on 04/06/2009 8:35:37 PM PDT by BARLF
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