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Old January 1st 04, 03:24 AM
Philip Sondericker
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in article , CFLav8r at
wrote on 12/31/03 6:03 PM:

I know many have forgotten or may not know of this, but a GA plane has been
used for unethical purposes.
Shortly after 9/11 a young kid thought he would make his mark on history by
slamming his plane (Cessna 152 I believe) into a building in downtown Tampa.
The plane was totally destroyed and the building only had a broken window or
something that minor.
I leave you with a ABC news web link for you to decide if Charles Bishop
was a domestic terrorist the likes of Timothy McVey.

David


Everyone has also seemingly forgotten the incident in 1994, when a
single-engine plane was deliberately crashed into the White House:

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V114/N40/crash.40w.html

The plane did little damage, of course, outside of killing the pilot
instantly. But what's important about this incident is that here we have an
actual, real-life example of a GA plane being used in a "terrorist attack"
(it was actually just a suicide by a disturbed man, with little or no
political motivation), targeting the White House itself, and all of it
occuring without warnings or alerts of any kind.

In other words, we don't have to speculate about what "might happen"--it's
already happened. And nothing happened.