Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Stolen Cessna Lands in Missouri

A cessna stolen out of Thunder Bay, Ontario and escorted by two F-16 fighter jets shortly after it crossed the Canada-U.S. border landed on a Missouri highway Monday. The pilot, Yavuz Berke, a 31-year-old naturalized Canadian citizen, born in Turkey, then tried to escape authorities on foot, but was quickly apprehended.

The story here.

I was listening to Hugh Hewitt when this story broke and thought for sure there was going to be a shootdown, especially when Berke ignored repeated attempts by the F-16 pilots to establish communications.
The Canadian press also has the story.

I thought for sure we had another Frank Corder situation on our hands, although I knew there was no way in Hell this guy going was to get even remotely that far.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Joe Liberal said...

SHOOT IT DOWN !!!!
A Cessna flying over ~nothing~ is certainly a terrorist activity.

Where's my gun?

7:53 am  
Blogger Northern Exposer said...

Well, I suppose they could have done completely nothing. I take it you didn't see the links about Frank Corder. So next time, they can do nothing and then when a tragedy occurs, the left can all yell in unison, "Why didn't you do something?"

Please. Don't ever get a job at Customs. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Plus, the guy IS from Turkey. Wasn't there a recent story about an assassination plot coming out of Turkey somewhere?

Racial profiling just simply wouldn't work. Pffft.

12:07 pm  
Anonymous Joe Liberal said...

You know darn well NOTHING will come close to Washington, DC ever again since September 11th.
Don't dredge up 1994 stuff. It's a new world now.


Oh, that's right....ALL Turks are evil. ALL are in cahoots to overthrow the government.

STOP the fear-mongering. Please.

8:58 pm  

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