Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airport terminal was a series of concrete blocks set on a butte overlooking Billings. Winds buffetted dead and splayed planes sitting on the cracked runway. A lone, bearded pilot inspected his single-engine Cessna 140. "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back East as fast as possible. May I have a ride...
They go aloft in spiffy Cessna 310s and cruise the highways in Cadillacs and Lincolns. In bays and harbors, they make waves with rakish speedboats and cabin cruisers. They are Florida's modestly paid drug agents; yet their planes, cars and boats are among the best that money can buy-certainly better than the usual Government issue. For good reason. The expensive equipment once belonged to the smugglers themselves...
Heading into storms, Benscotter apparently put the twin-engine Cessna 441 into a climb to get over the weather. Later, radar detected the plane flying an erratic course, and the Air Force scrambled jets to investigate. Captain Daniel Zoerb spotted the Cessna off Norfolk, Va., now more than 1,000 miles from Shreveport. It was flying at 41,000 ft., 5,000 ft. above the maximum altitude for which it is certified, and presumably on automatic pilot. Zoerb tried to make contact with the Cessna by radio, but got no answer. He saw the plane go into a steep dive...