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Police: Tampa flyer voiced support for bin Laden
Crash into bank building a suicide, officials say
January 7, 2002 Posted: 1:24 AM EST (0624 GMT)
Wreckage from a Cessna 172 aircraft hangs from a skyscraper in Tampa,
Florida.
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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- A note written by the 15-year-old boy who crashed a
Cessna into a Tampa office building Saturday indicated he supported Osama
bin Laden and that the act was deliberate, authorities said Sunday.
Charles J. Bishop, who took the plane on an unauthorized flight across Tampa
Bay, died at the scene of Saturday's crash into the 42-story Bank of America
Plaza building. He apparently made no attempt to avoid the structure,
witnesses said.
"I would characterize it as a suicide," said Tampa Police Chief Bennie
Holder.
The note, which was found in the wreckage of the plane, "clearly stated that
he had acted alone, without any help from anyone else," Holder said. "He
did, however, make statements expressing his sympathy for Osama bin Laden
and the events which occurred September 11, 2001." Several of the pilots
involved in those attacks trained at Florida flight schools.
  Authorities have no information to support any connection between Bishop
and any terror organization, Holder said. "At this point, there is no reason
to suggest anyone else was involved."
Bishop had few friends, Holder said. "He was very much a loner. From his
actions, we can assume he was a troubled young man."
The investigation is continuing, he said.
Authorities removed the computer belonging Bishop from his house and will
check it for possible clues to his motive, Holder said.
Bishop, who had taken flight lessons for two years, had gone to the
private-plane section of the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International
Airport, accompanied by his mother and grandmother. His instructor left him
at the plane to perform a preflight inspection, authorities said.
He had no authority to get in the plane alone, a government transportation
official said.
A ninth-grader at East Lake High School near Tarpon Springs, Florida, Bishop
should have had an instructor in the plane with him, said Pinellas County
Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Greg Tita.
Once he was alone in the plane, a Cessna 172, he started the engine and took
off without permission around 5 p.m. EST.
When the plane took off, the instructor contacted the St. Petersburg
airport's air-traffic control tower, which then notified Tampa International
Airport, Tampa police said. The St. Petersburg control tower also
immediately notified MacDill Air Force Base since the Cessna was headed its
way, said Sgt. Chris Miller, MacDill public affairs officer.
After a five-minute flight over Tampa Bay, the plane entered MacDill Air
Force Base's restricted airspace and flew over the runway about 100 feet off
the ground, Miller said. The student did not appear to be making an attempt
to land nor did the plane circle or fly erratically, he added. MacDill is
the home of the U.S. Central Command, which directs the U.S. forces
operating in Afghanistan.
Helicopter chase
MacDill contacted the U.S. Coast Guard, which had a helicopter on routine
patrol in the vicinity, and asked it to investigate. The helicopter caught
up with the plane near Peter O. Knight Airport, about 14 miles east from
where the Cessna took off, said Coast Guard spokesman Paul Rhymand.
Minutes before the crash, the helicopter pilot made direct eye contact with
the student through the chopper's open side door as crew members gestured
for Bishop to land the plane, police said. It was not clear what his
response was.
Beyond making gestures, "There's not much a helicopter can do," said Coast
Guard spokeswoman Lt. Charlotte Pittman. She was sure the youth saw the
crew's hand gestures, Pittman said.
Soon after, the plane crashed into the Bank of America building. The plane's
wings fell to the ground, but the fuselage stuck in the building's southwest
corner on the 28th and 29th floors. It was removed from its precarious perch
Sunday morning, and local authorities declared the building safe.
Jets on patrol
After being notified Saturday by the FAA, the North American Aerospace
Defense Command ordered two F-15 combat jets at Homestead Air Force Base in
Miami to intercept the Cessna around 5:15 p.m., NORAD Capt. Kirstin Reimann
said.
The plane crashed into the Bank of America Plaza building in Tampa, Florida,
on Saturday. The pilot, 15-year-old Charles J. Bishop, died at the scene.
The F-15s arrived on the scene too late to intervene, a Homestead spokesman
said. The jets flew combat air patrol over the area until 7:30 p.m. as a
precaution, Reimann added.
Several employees of the Tampa Club, a business and dining club, were on the
top two floors of the Bank of America building when the plane crashed. There
were no injuries in the building, which was evacuated.
Though the plane leaked fuel, it did not catch fire. Firefighters inside the
building sprayed the area with foam.
Authorities evacuated the street below the bank building, which in the heart
of the city at 101 E. Kennedy Blvd. Commercial airports in Tampa and St.
Petersburg briefly suspended operations, but resumed service within about an
hour.
President Bush was briefed on the incident, as well as two other crashes
involving small aircraft Saturday afternoon. Federal authorities said the
Florida crash was not related to two others in California and Colorado.
The Cessna, a 2000 model, is owned by National Aviation Holdings of
Clearwater, Florida, according to Landings, a Web site that tracks
information on aircraft.
-- CNN Correspondent Kathleen Koch contributed to this report

qual'e' l' indirizzo della polizia postale (seriamente)?


Perchč?


Vuoi denunciare il quindicenne statunitense (ma guarda che è morto) o non
sai leggere l'inglese?

 Hai capito l'americanino...
Commento musicale: "Tu vuo' fa 'o talebano" di Gino
Pollazzone (scaricabile come Flash e Mp3 da 
www.my-tv.it
).
Andrea
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 qual'e' l' indirizzo della polizia postale (seriamente)?
Dovrebbe bastare una ricerca di "ESCOPOST" in un qualsiasi motore.
Andrea
salo...@mediacomm.it