A Plane Stolen in Maine Falls on Montérégie Plain(flown across border without clearance)

Montreal.canada.com ^ | Sunday » September 28 » 2003 | ANGUS LOTEN/ AP

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'I don't know who taught him to fly, but they didn't tell him to check the gas'.

A 25-year-old man is facing several charges after his plane, reported stolen from an airfield in Maine, crashed into a Montérégie field yesterday morning.

The man, a Livingston, Me., resident, suffered only minor injuries in the accident.

He had been flying a Cessna without a pilot's licence or flight training, said Constable Manon Gaignard of the Sûreté du Québec.

For unknown reasons, the man left a private airport, near Turner, Me., about 6:30 a.m., running out of gas three hours later above St. Paul d'Abbotsford, about 80 kilometres east of Montreal.

He will appear in a St. Hyacinthe court tomorrow on charges of possession of stolen property, Gaignard said.

He will then have to answer to Transport Canada, Canadian and U.S. security officials and INTERPOL, having flown across an international border without clearance, she added.

"I don't know who taught him how to fly, but they didn't tell him to check the gas," Gaignard said.

aloten@thegazette.canwest.com

[fight_truth_decay]

6:17 PM

NEWS 8 Maine story is not giving a name either. The 25-yr old man's address is: "The Lewiston resident suffered only minor injuries in the accident. His name has not yet been released."

The Montreal article lists him as a resident of Livingston, Me.

Turner,Maine the location of the airfield from where the Cessna was stolen is located next to Lewiston. The city of Lewiston made headlines earlier this year with a Letter to the Somali population sent by the mayor of that city. That story has been made into a documentary.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Probably one of those cheesy moose smugglers.

[Sub-Driver]

too many molson's?

[Endeavor]

Al Qaeda tryouts?

[Nix 2]

A plane from Maine falls mainly on the plain...

Has a certain *ring* to it, eh?

[martin_fierro]

Curses, you beat me to it.

[Chad Fairbanks]

A 25-year-old man is facing several charges after his plane, reported stolen from an airfield in Maine, crashed into a Montérégie field yesterday morning.

It would have been better if it had said, "...facing several charges after the plane he was flying..." cuz it wasn't his plane.

[tet68]

"Out in the marsh reeds
a bird cries in pain.
As if having remembered
something better forgotten."

From the Japanese.

Or as I saw it in a truck rest stop.

Down in Savannah
a barge cries in vain.
As if having remembered
Potatos from kennebunk Maine.

[EGPWS]

He had been flying a Cessna without a pilot's licence or flight training, said Constable Manon Gaignard of the Sûreté du Québec.

For unknown reasons, the man left a private airport, near Turner, Me., about 6:30 a.m., running out of gas three hours later above St. Paul d'Abbotsford, about 80 kilometres east of Montreal.

Lucky fella' considering his perceived "IQ".

We, here in MPLS had a "fine young citizen" steal an aircraft from an airport and fly it to another airport 5 (flight) miles away a few years back...drunk and without a PL to do so. Unfortunately, the drunken teenager passengers (all 3 of them) died in the crash at their destination when the aircraft nosed into the runway. However, the drunken pilot survived.

[leadpenny]

This would be Breaking News if the US or Canada had scrambled some interceptors. Come to think of it, wonder why that wasn't done?

He probably was just trying to get noticed on FreeRepublic.

[Nix 2]

There once was a nutball from Maine
Who fancied himself in a plane
He tried hard to fly
But the plane went bye bye
And fell to the earth on a plain.

Or...
See Pink Floyd...

Into the distance a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field....

literally.

sorry

[fight_truth_decay]

[fight_truth_decay]

Yikes,the Map as come alive!!! My attempt...has failed.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

F-16.

Maybe that did happen. Makes more sense than "Oops, outa fuel. Think I'll glide to a safe stop."

These stories are often filtered. Any Maine residents with first-hand knowledge?

[Lessismore]

Perhaps it was one of those "stealth Cessnas", like that kid flew into Red Square in Moscow some years back.