[COEXERJ145]

Seriously this could be an accident or it could be a copycat like the young muslim kid in Tampa who flew a light plane into an empty office building right after 9-11-01.

That kid was a mentally ill individual, not a Muslim fanatic.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/698562/1/#113

[kinghorse]

He was 2nd gen syrian. whatever.

[Deo volente]

That kid was a mentally ill individual, not a Muslim fanatic.

Aren't they the same thing?

[Strategerist]

That kid was a mentally ill individual, not a Muslim fanatic.

Unfortunetely you've run into an incorrectly-remembered meme which is impossible to kill.

Neither the kid in Tampa or his family were Muslim. The nutters got their panties in a gigantic wad over the discovery that the family had an Arab name which had been changed which they claimed the press didn't mention enough. However, as it turned out, the kid was 3/4ths Italian and 1/4 Arab, through one grandfather - said grandfather was an immigrant to New England in the earliest part of the 20th century, and basically all such immigrants were Christians from Lebanon and Syria. The family actually DID have some connections to the mafia, though.

[buccaneer81]

a mentally ill individual, not a Muslim fanatic.

And the difference is???