Teen takes plane for a joyride

[npowless]

A 14 year old Rainsville boy is accused of stealing a plane, flying it around town and later crashing onto an area roadway. Police say this was the teens first time in an aircraft.

http://www.whnt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3483083&nav=1VPtb6vu

Interesting.

 

[ultrarunner]

I wonder what the false information was that he gave...

"...no officer, I'm not a pilot....really...."


This will live with him for a long time I suspect.

 

[Ralgha]

He must have been more familiar than he claimed. He would have to know a few things: what the throttle is, what the mixture is, what you have to do with each to make the engine run, what the master switch is and that it has to be on to start it. He had to know that you steer with your feet on the ground.

If he knew that stuff, yeah the story could be true. However, it was also night time. That means he probably had to know how to turn on the airport lights (key the radio switch), what frequency it needed (may have already been tuned in), and where that button was. Without the lights, the airport would have been a black hole, of course the lights may have been on already.

The other problem is how different it looks at night. If he really knew nothing, chances are he would have gotten lost, not gone back to the airport.

 

[B1900 Mech]

And Gunnery Sargent Hartmen says, "And where did he learn to fly,......On the computer,OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[CitationXDriver]

ummmmmm......whats a cessna II???

 

[bigD]

I was going to make the same joke. This kid has more time in a Cessna II than I do!

Now, if you're talking about a 152 II....

 

[TonyC]

Oops. I read the title and thought this was another PCL 3701 thread.



My mistake.







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[viper548]

Oops. I read the title and thought this was another PCL 3701 thread.



My mistake.







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ZING!!!

 

[Ralgha]

A few minutes playing with any computer flightsim "game" and you could start a Cessna.

Not with some of the Cessnas I've flown. Some require a fine dance of primer, throttle, and mixture to get them to take. Then they try to die for about a minute. Colorful language usually helps too.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

Oops. I read the title and thought this was another PCL 3701 thread.

C'mon Tony. The guys are dead...have a little respect for them already.

 

[BD King]

Hey! Let's give the little turd a bit of praise. Zero time, at night, solo, and he did not kill his miserable ass. I started flying at 14, and there would be no way in hell that I would have survived, even after 3 or 5 hours of instruction.

www.bdkingpress.com

 

[FlyJordan]

What Cessna is worth $35,000? J/k Especially the II model!

 

[VNugget]

Hey! Let's give the little turd a bit of praise. Zero time, at night, solo, and he did not kill his miserable ass. I started flying at 14, and there would be no way in hell that I would have survived, even after 3 or 5 hours of instruction.

www.bdkingpress.com

Seconded. And if you read the article carefully, you'll see that he actually had a successful landing before the crash landing.

 

[C601]

Speaking of joyride,,, below 500ft and no doors lol ??

http://images.airliners.net/open.fi...RFP&photo_nr=48&prev_id=851469&next_id=851091

 

[falcon20driver]

Speaking of joyride,,, below 500ft and no doors lol ??

http://images.airliners.net/open.fi...RFP&photo_nr=48&prev_id=851469&next_id=851091

The below 500' is not a problem, I think the reg is something like "at least 500' from any person, vessel, or man made structure".

I've flown quite a few Cubs and Super Cubs from Florida to New Jersey and most of it at less than 10 feet above the ground along the shoreline, lots of isolated beach most of the way.