Oh groan!

They are making a big budget movie with Shawn Penn about the guy who
tried to crash a Cessna into the White House during the Nixon years.
Just what GA needs. Hopefully, they will show how it essentially
bounced off the windows.

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Roger Long

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:53:23 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote in ::

They are making a big budget movie with Shawn Penn about the guy who
tried to crash a Cessna into the White House during the Nixon years.
Just what GA needs. Hopefully, they will show how it essentially
bounced off the windows.

Given Hollywood's penchant for sensationalism, your hope isn't likely
to be realized.

I wasn't able to locate information about the incident to which you
referred, but here's another that occurred in 1994:
http://geocities.com/roboplanes/cessna.html

Hopefully, they will show how it essentially bounced off the windows.

I can always hope..... but being 'Hollywood', I expect it will let go an
explosion the size of 20 of our suns g..... oh yes,,, and the wings will
shred concrete and steel with ease with special effects showing the plane,
cascading down hallways and through doors, people running down hallways out
in front of the path of the plane....... Hollywood will never let the facts
get in the way of a sensationalistic story...... I still hope they will
try to get the facts right,,, but I am skeptical....

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As I remember, the guy did a lawn dart on the West Lawn, and some
pieces fetched up against the wall... It wasn't much of a crash, but
I agree that Hollywood will have it equal to a Bimini 100 megaton
H-bomb...

Denny

..... or even worse... because they know how little damage would actually
occur, they will cut the film short of the plane actually crashing, the
camera zooming in on the ever widening eyes of the pilot as he over controls
first one way then the next, the airspeed quickly climbing and the whine of
the engine growing while he croaks out one last anti-government utterence
leaving the speculation, shock, and awe to develop to a feverish pitch in
the minds of an unaware infuential audience.

Jim

"Denny" wrote in message
oups.com...
As I remember, the guy did a lawn dart on the West Lawn, and some
pieces fetched up against the wall... It wasn't much of a crash, but
I agree that Hollywood will have it equal to a Bimini 100 megaton
H-bomb...

Denny

"Cecil Chapman" wrote in message
m...
Hopefully, they will show how it essentially bounced off the windows.

I can always hope..... but being 'Hollywood', I expect it will let go an
explosion the size of 20 of our suns g..... oh yes,,, and the wings will
shred concrete and steel with ease with special effects showing the plane,
cascading down hallways and through doors, people running down hallways
out
in front of the path of the plane

The fireball! Don't forget the fireball! And the heroic SS agent who runs
ahead of it screaming with the strain!

And the overhead shot of DC with the shock wave spreading out and flattening
buildings for miles!

We also need to have the Cessna badly damaged from bullets fired by Air
Force F-18s and shrapnel from Stinger missiles fired by the SS.

And the motivation will have to be protest over Nixon starting the war in
Vietnam. Or maybe his deployment of SDI or even orbital mind control lasers.

Roger Long wrote:

They are making a big budget movie with Shawn Penn about the guy who
tried to crash a Cessna into the White House during the Nixon years.

Are you sure of the aircraft type? A report on White House security lists only
the landing of a stolen helicopter on the grounds by Robert Preston and the
attempt by Samuel Byck to hijack an airliner and crash it into the White House.
The latter incident would certainly make an excellent movie, even if they didn't
hype it up. The only referral to a Cessna crash I can find is the one during the
Clinton administration.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
They are making a big budget movie with Shawn Penn about the guy who
tried to crash a Cessna into the White House during the Nixon years.
Just what GA needs. Hopefully, they will show how it essentially
bounced off the windows.

The scene will be no more inaccurate than the crash in "The Aviator," and we
all loved that movie.

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
They are making a big budget movie with Shawn Penn about
the guy who tried to crash a Cessna into the White House
during the Nixon years. Just what GA needs. Hopefully,
they will show how it essentially bounced off the windows.

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Well, if we are going to critize something let's at least know what we are
talking about. The movie was about Samuel Byck who tried to hijack a
commercial airliner to crash into the White House. The Cessna incident
happened to Bill Clinton.

http://www.rvv.com/peacemaker/Samuel_Byck.htm

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/ustrea.../t1pubrpt.html

Earl Grieda wrote:


Well, if we are going to critize something let's at least know what
we are
talking about.

well, there you go changing the rules and taking all the fun out of
it!!! (g)


dan