ADIZ pilot's ticket revoked

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...&sn=018&sc=478

AA Revokes License of D.C. 'Alert' Pilot
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Monday, May 23, 2005

(05-23) 12:15 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

The government has revoked the license of the pilot in charge of the small
plane that strayed to within three miles of the White House on May 11,
forcing the panicked evacuation of thousands of people from the executive
mansion, Capitol and Supreme Court.

Though hundreds of people have mistakenly flown into Washington's restricted
airspace, this was believed to be the first such revocation.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it had issued an
emergency revocation of Hayden L. Sheaffer's pilot's license because he
"constitutes an unacceptable risk to safety in air commerce."

The agency said no action would be taken against Sheaffer's student, who was
also in the plane.

"This action reflects the seriousness in which we view all restricted
airspace violations and, in this case, the level of incursion into
restricted airspace," said FAA spokesman Greg Martin.

The plane entered restricted airspace and then continued flying toward
highly sensitive areas, prompting evacuations of tens of thousands of people
as military aircraft scrambled to intercept it.

The student, 36-year-old Troy Martin, who had logged only 30 hours of flight
time, had control of the small Cessna single engine plane when a U.S.
Customs Service Black Hawk helicopter and a Citation jet intercepted it.

Sheaffer didn't take the most basic steps required of pilots before
operating an aircraft, the FAA said. He failed to check the weather report
before leaving Smoketown, Pa., and he didn't check the FAA's "Notices to
Airmen," which informs pilots of airspace restrictions.

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A. Coleman wrote:

The student, 36-year-old Troy Martin, who had logged only 30 hours of
flight
time, had control of the small Cessna single engine plane when a U.S.

Customs Service Black Hawk helicopter and a Citation jet intercepted
it.

Really? A Citation jet intercepted the wayward C150? That's news to
me.

--
Peter

It was suposedly a customs jet. It was involved in the chase with the
F16 and blackhawk.

What in the #(*$%& is a customs jet going to do to protect our national
government against a C150? Threaten them with loss of duty free
privileges????????????????

"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
What in the #(*$%& is a customs jet going to do to protect our national
government against a C150? Threaten them with loss of duty free
privileges????????????????

Confiscate their booze and cigarettes.

"Paul kgyy" wrote in message

What in the #(*$%& is a customs jet going to do to protect our national
government against a C150?

Fly into it.

*shrug*

-c

("gatt" wrote)
What in the #(*$%& is a customs jet going to do to protect our national
government against a C150?

Fly into it.

*shrug*


History Channel - May 15th
(Don't know when it's on again)

"The Hurricane That Saved London"

(From the show page)
Only one fighter plane ever crashed in the streets of London during WWII,
and the story of the crash is the stuff of novels. We join a team of
excavators, at a busy intersection just blocks from Buckingham Palace, that
is about to uncover what remains of it. We also get the firsthand account of
the crash from the doomed plane's pilot Ray Holmes, who is still alive to
tell his story. While defending London from Nazi attacks, Holmes rammed his
fighter plane into a German bomber in a desperate attempt to deflect the
bomber from its target--Buckingham Palace. It worked, but not before Holmes
lost control of his own plane and was forced to eject.

http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/listings_weekly.jsp?fromYear=2005&fromMonth=4&from Date=15&NetwCode=THC&timezone=2&View=Weekly&&fromT ime=18

http://makeashorterlink.com/?F53F2402B
(Same History Channel link as above)


Montblack

Paul kgyy wrote:
What in the #(*$%& is a customs jet going to do to protect our national
government against a C150?

They were just practicing. Customs is working to try to take over enforcement of
the ADIZ from the FAA. Representative Mark Souder of Indiana tried to add an
ammendment to the HS bill to give them control over it.

George Patterson
"Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got
no clothes on - and are up to somethin'.

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:abyke.10075$BF5.1153@trndny06...
Paul kgyy wrote:
What in the #(*$%& is a customs jet going to do to protect our national
government against a C150?

They were just practicing. Customs is working to try to take over enforcement of the ADIZ from the FAA. Representative
Mark Souder of Indiana tried to add an ammendment to the HS bill to give them control over it.

George Patterson
"Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got
no clothes on - and are up to somethin'.

Think about this folks....Customs patrols the borders where the ADIZ is supposed to be...our gov't is so confused that
it thinks it has a country inside our country, thus the ADIZ around DC. So the Customs plane was simply protecting the
border inside the border...

Paul kgyy wrote:
What in the #(*$%& is a customs jet going to do to protect our national
government against a C150? Threaten them with loss of duty free
privileges????????????????

Customs owns the blackhawks too. They're on loan to the DC area
security efforts. Helicopters are a bit more appropriate (if you're
not going to fire weapons) than jets for shooing away wayward light
planes.