Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just six weeks ago, in the middle of the night, a drunken and disturbed man crashed a single-engine Cessna into the White House lawn, below the President's bedroom. I was pretty impressed, until I heard that instead of the bedroom he hit a magnolia tree. And, even more embarassing, the President and First Family were sleeping across the street at Blair House...
...watch plane after plane taking off and landing at nearby National Airport. Heat- seeking missiles have been known to find targets other than those intended for destruction. In any case, at nearly 2 a.m. on that Monday, neither theory nor practice was tested. Corder's low-flying, small Cessna gave White House security personnel just enough time to dive...
Just before dawn on Monday, Sept. 12, a small red-and-white Cessna crash- landed on the White House lawn, ripped through a venerable magnolia tree planted by President Andrew Jackson and smashed into the side of the White House, just under the Clintons' bedroom. Fortunately, the First Family was spending the night across Pennsylvania Avenue at Blair House. The crash raised questions about White House security and why air-traffic controllers at National Airport did not notice the tiny plane on their radar screens. Noting that the pilot had a history of depression and substance abuse, investigators suggested...
...Beach, Florida, made the famous Cub -- the little yellow plane that thrilled county-fair audiences with rides and stunts like the Flying Farmer, a "runaway" plane with Grandma on board and cornstalks streaming from its landing gear. Now the company is in bankruptcy. The $25 million annual budget that Cessna used to spend to promote flying has been used up in lawyers' fees...
...acre forest called Headwaters -- the largest uncut stand anywhere still in private hands -- and smaller clusters surviving around Owl Creek, Allen Creek and Shaw Creek. All are listed for cutting. "They want to turn all that into lawn furniture and hot-tub decking," Thron yells over the Cessna's intercom. A much larger area of nearly 40,000 acres is scarred and scraped by bulldozers, its salmon-spawning streams choked with silt. Some of this is healthy second growth (redwoods reach marketable size in 50 to 80 years), but the recently logged areas look as if they had been fought...