Small Plane Crashes Into Building in Tampa, Fla.

[Fallon]

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A small private plane crashed into an office high-rise in downtown Tampa late on Saturday afternoon after taking off from a nearby airport without clearance and then ignoring Coast Guard signals to land, officials said.

Capt. Bill Wade of the Tampa Fire Department said there was no word yet of casualties from the aircraft, a four-seater, but he said no one was hurt in the building or on the ground.

Wade said the plane hit the 20th floor of the Bank of America building. The weather was clear when the plane hit at around 5 p.m.

There was no sign of any major fire at the crash scene and Wade said about an hour after the crash that firemen had already reached the affected area of the building.

The streets below were quickly cleared by police.

The plane's wings and some other parts of the aircraft had fallen to the ground and the rest of the plane was dangling from the building.

Lt. Lance Isakson, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, said the plane, piloted by a student, took off without clearance from St. Petersburg-Clearwater airport, about 20 miles from Tampa.

The Coast Guard was notified by the airport and a Coast Guard helicopter followed the plane, he said.

Isakson said the helicopter signaled to the plane to land at an airport in Tampa but the plane ignored the signals and crashed into the building.

The helicopter ``gave visual signals to land but they were ignored,'' Isakson said.

CNN said the pilot was 15 years old and a student.

Local media said the plane was a single-engine Cessna and WFLA, a local television station, said it was owned by National Aviation Holdings.

Saturday's crash was a small-scale but sinister echo of the horrifying images of the assaults by hijacked commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon (news - web sites) outside Washington on Sept. 11 which killed some 3,000 people.

There was no indication that Saturday's crash was a deliberate attack. Office buildings in Tampa would be expected to be largely deserted on a weekend afternoon. <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020105/ts/crash_plane_dc.html">Yahoo! News</a>

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[Fallon]

A commuter plane reportedly crashed Saturday afternoon near Boulder, Colo.

KUSA-TV in Denver reported that emergency crews were headed to the crash. The TV station reported the plane went down west of U.S. 36 near Neva Road shortly after 4 p.m, according to a Boulder County sheriff's dispatcher. <a href="http://msnbc.com/news/682683.asp?0cm=c10">MSNBC</a>

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MSNBC said that the person flying the plane in Tampa was 15 and is dead.

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This message was edited by WWFallon on 1-5-02 @ 7:08 PM

[PanterA]

all these tall buildings are the problem if you ask me

http://www.members.aol.com/rnfpantera/drizztsig2Happy New Years Ya Fuck!

[Fallon]

Small Plane Crashes in Calif.

BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - A twin-engine plane crashed a block away from an airport Saturday, killing at least one person, authorities said.

The Cessna 337 Skymaster crashed in a vacant lot in a commercial and residential area, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Stephen Miller said.

Miller did not know how many people were aboard the six-seat plane.

The pilot had been cleared to land at about 1:30 p.m. when air traffic controllers saw it roll over and crash about a block west of Fullerton Municipal Airport.

The plane knocked down telephone lines, crashed into a wall and exploded into flames, Miller said.

``The scorch marks indicate a vertical-type impact,'' Miller added.

Air traffic controllers said the plane was flying too high and with its landing gear up as it approached the airport, but the pilot did not report any trouble.

Miller said skies were clear and winds were light at the time of the crash.

Buena Park is about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles. <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020105/ts/airport_crash_2.html">Yahoo! News</a>

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[NewYorkDragons80]

Pantera is absolutely right. Des Moines is where it's at. Tall buildings are not to blame, the people that decide to fly into them are the problem. How tall was the Pentagon Pantera?

This morning (Before this Tampa incident occured) 9/11 made me think about Columbine. I remembered how we found out the 2 students ultimately planned to hijack a plane and crash it into NY. I also remembered how all the media's "Ananlysts" said it was impossible.

This is a very similar case to that on a much smaller scale. What do you think were his motives?

"THOSE BASTARDS"
-Norman Schwartzkoff

"May God bless us in this trial, comfort us, strengthen our resolve, and make our justice as terrible and certain as His."
-Senator John McCain

"Neitzche is dead"
-God

[TheGameHHH]

I'm sure we'll knew know his true motives, but it seems to me this student just wanted to be some sort of copycat. However, his damage was minimal, and the only life lost was his own. It's still way too early to know all the facts.

IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME-AHHH!

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[PanterA]

Pantera is absolutely right.
hey cool.
Tall buildings are not to blame,
Hey wait, that's disagreeing with me
the people that decide to fly into them are the problem.
Well no duh
How tall was the Pentagon Pantera?
well i dont know exactly but i'll guess maybe 4 - 5 stories
What do you think were his motives?
To fly a plane into a building?
But maybe not. You ever think that it was an accident? Ever since 911 everyone is on edge, and that's understandable but is this how we are going to live the rest of our lives? Everytime something happens right away "we're being attacked!!" NO FUCKIN WAY! that's how these sand monkeys live, thats how they wanted us to feel. WELL FUCK THEM! I refuse to live my life in fear of "what's next?"

http://www.members.aol.com/rnfpantera/drizztsig2Happy New Years Ya Fuck!

[NewYorkDragons80]

Sarcastic Bastard

"THOSE BASTARDS"
-Norman Schwartzkoff

"May God bless us in this trial, comfort us, strengthen our resolve, and make our justice as terrible and certain as His."
-Senator John McCain

"Neitzche is dead"
-God

[Brick Jesus]

I think it was an accident, but I also thought it was weird that four small planes went down. Florida, Colorado, Cali and I found out about one in Puerto Rico. Didn't make me panic, cause I live like 2 blocks away from an airport on Long Island, but I just thought it was weird.

I think if you're 15, you have no business flying a plane. You can't even drive a car or buy smokes.

Disclaimer: The comments of Brick Jesus do not represent the feelings or opinions of any normal individual.

[Fallon]

Teen Pilot in Tampa Crash Had 'Sympathy' for Osama

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Police said on Sunday the lone 15-year-old pilot who stole a small private plane on Saturday and crashed it into a high-rise office block in Tampa was a ''troubled'' youth who expressed sympathy for Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) in an apparent suicide note.

Tampa Police Chief Bennie Holder said the note was found on the body of Charles Bishop, who was the only person killed in Saturday's incident. ``I would characterize it as a suicide note,'' Holder told reporters in Tampa, adding he did not view Bishop's flight as an act of terrorism.

He said Bishop's note clearly stated that he had acted alone without any help from anyone else, and added that authorities saw no evidence he had support from anyone else.

But Holder said that in the note Bishop expressed sympathy for bin Laden, the Saudi-born militant the United States holds responsible for the Sept. 11 airborne assaults on New York and Washington in which 3,000 people were killed. Holder declined to give details of the note, but said that in it, Bishop ''expressed support for what happened on 9-11'' -- Sept. 11.

``The young man Charles Bishop is best described as a young man who had very few friends and was very much a loner ... a troubled young man,'' Holder said of the youth. Bishop turned up for a flight lesson at a nearby airport on Saturday afternoon and then took off in a single-engine Cessna 172 without his flight instructor or airport clearance, flying for about 10 minutes before crashing into the 28th floor of the 42-storey Bank of America building in downtown Tampa. <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020106/ts/crash_plane_dc_14.html">Yahoo! News</a>

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