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"The FBI is not treating it as a terror attack
"
I guess there not treating this as a "terror attack"
because the pilot was not
Muslim or Middle Eastern. Imagine the headline if he had
been?
mart
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Mager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 8:46 AM
Subject: Plane crashes into Bank of America
building [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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> hmmmmm....
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>
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> TEENAGER CRASHES PLANE INTO US BUILDING
>
> AT least one person is dead after a fifteen year-old boy crashed a plane
> into a US skyscraper.
>
> The dead person is the pilot Charles Bishop.
>
> He has crashed the plane into the side of the Bank of America after taking
> off without permission and ignoring signals to land.
>
> The crash happened after Bishop was dropped off for his flying lesson by his
> grandmother.
>
> He had been having lessons for 2 years.
>
> The FBI is not treating it as a terror attack but has sent agents to the
> scene.
>
> The tail of the four-seat Cessna 172 dangles near the 20th floor of the
> building in Tampa, Florida.
>
> It is not known whether anyone has been injured in the building.
>
> A government official in Washington said the pilot was 15 years old - a year
> too young to qualify as a solo pilot.
>
> Air traffic controllers notified the US Coastguard the plane had taken off
> without clearance, and a coastguard helicopter tried to intercept the plane
> and give the pilot signals to land, but the plane did not respond.
>
> A Federal Aviation spokesman says the plane was flown by "a student pilot
> who did not have permission to fly the aircraft".
>
> Some of the pilots in the hijackings of September had been trained at
> Florida flight schools.
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