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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: Townhallsavoy on January 02, 2013, 12:48:28 PM
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JASPER, Ala. January 2, 2013 (AP)
Investigators believe a small plane that crashed in the Alabama woods was taken without permission for a joyride by a student pilot and two other teenagers who died in the wreck Tuesday night.
Walker County sheriff's Chief Deputy James Painter said Wednesday authorities are still investigating but believe the three teenagers took off in the plane before it went down in a wooded area near Jasper, northwest of Birmingham.
"We don't know for sure but we think it was some teenagers who stole the plane and were sort of joyriding it," Painter told The Associated Press. "They got it in and took off and didn't go very far."
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the Piper PA 30 crashed less than a mile from the Walker County Airport in Jasper.
The names of the three occupants of the plane haven't been released.
"I think they were just looking for a thrill and they had their last one," Painter said.
The plane had departed from the small airport at night and when there was a low cloud ceiling , airport manager Edwin Banks said.
"It was a student pilot flying an airplane without permission, an airplane that he was not qualified to fly at night," Banks said. He declined to name the student before authorities release the identities.
The teenage pilot had flown a single-engine airplane in the past "and he got in a double-engine at night in bad weather with a couple of his buddies," Banks said.
The Piper PA 30 is also called a Piper Twin Comanche. It is a low-wing plane with two propellers and can seat four to six, depending on the model.
The planes were built from 1963 until 1972, and were popular with flight schools because of their fuel efficiency and relatively inexpensive price tags, according to the International Comanche Society, an enthusiasts' group.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/deadly-ala-plane-crash-joyride-18113447#.UORpdG80WSo
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Hey look at us we stole a plane.......wooooooo .......were dead.
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I wonder what the odds are that the words "Investigators say that alcohol was a factor" will appear somewhere in the next update.
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Famous last words...
"Watch this shit..."
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Dude.If one engine is good....two gotta be better. Right?
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Hey, hold my beer
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Dude, I got this.
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Hey, what does this button do?
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I hear you feel ten times more drunk in the air!
We are out of beer money so let's steal a plane. You can fly, right!
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Want to join the mile high club?
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Want to join the mile high club?
Up and down and up they go
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Want to join the mile high six feet under club?
So sad that stupidity can be terminal.
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Up and down and up they go
And then down one final time......
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So sad that stupidity can be terminal.
Actually. They probably hadn't procreated yet. So there is that.
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Off we go
into the wild blue yonder,
We're flying right
into the ground.
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Unfortunately, there was a time between about 15 and 20 yrs. old that I could see myself going along for the ride. I mean, he was a student pilot ya know. I don't know when I lost my invincibility but I'm so glad that I did.
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Actually. They probably hadn't procreated yet. So there is that.
Thank God.
My money says they were bammers.