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Monday, January 7, 2002

What Happened Here, Eh? -- Chris || Post in the forum

By now we have all heard about the wittle boy who was troubled down in Florida and decided to fly the plane he was flying into a building. He took off without his flight instructor.

My first question is, "How did he take off without his flight instructor?" They were supposed to tighten security in all airports in the U.S., but obviously someone missed that memo. Just think what would have happened if this took place two days later, some innocent people would have died because someone, somewhere slacked off.

Next, the part that which I cannot understand the most, is how did his plane go through MacDill Air Force Base's air space, without having some sort of deterrent or warning to "get the hell out of there". Just so you know, that's where the U.S. is commanding the operations in Afghanistan; you'd think security would be a little tight there. Nope, sorry. At the current time there were no fighter jets on the base. The nearest ones were about 200 miles away at Homestead Air Force Base.

What if the kid knew what he was doing and decided to take out some communications equipment (not like they don't have any backup source to it... but still), do you have any idea how bad that would make the armed forces look when they let a kid flying a single engine plane into their base without any deterrent. But what am I saying, they are doing quite a nice clean-up job in Afghanistan.

They got lucky since no one else was killed, or else everyone would have been asking "hey, you said that you were going to beef up security, and here's a 15 years old kid who did that, what's going on?". Two days later and that would have happened. Personally, I feel that it's good that only he was killed, by 15-years-old, you have enough since to tell right from wrong. Plane in building, bad. Plane not in building, good.