Some details:
“U.S. troopers arrest pilot of stolen plane from Thunder Bay, Ont.”
BY DAVID WYLIE, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEAPRIL 6, 2009 10:49 PM
SNIPPET: “The plane was taken from the Confederation College Aviation Centre, which is located at the Thunder Bay airport, Judi Maundrell, the college’s vice-president of academics and student services told radio station CKPR.
“Apparently somebody jumped over the fence and just jumped into an aircraft,” she said.
“It was sitting as usual parked on the ramp. They keys are in all the aircrafts because students are using them.”
According to Cessna’s website the 172 Skyhawk has a maximum cruise speed of 233 kilometres per hour and a range of about 1,130 kilometres.”
More details:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090406/stolen_plane_090406/20090406
“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.”
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/07/Suspect-arrested-in-plane-theft/UPI-86321239082804/
“Suspect arrested in plane theft”
Published: April 7, 2009 at 1:40 AM
SNIPPET: “Two F-16 fighters began to escort the Cessna after it crossed into U.S. airspace from Canada at 4:23 EDT over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, ABC said. As the pilot flew over Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri, he ignored repeated requests that he contact air controllers on the ground.
ABC said Canadian officials told U.S. officials Burke had been treated Friday for depression, and that he left a good-bye note for his girlfriend.”