Saturday, May 14, 2005
Beware Student Driver
Yesterday, I linked to Peggy Noonan's great telling of the evacuation of government offices earlier in the week. Now we know what happened.
Fighter jets surrounded the plane and fired flares to get pilot Jim Sheaffer's attention. The jets escorted the pilot to a safe landing in Frederick, Md., just outside the restricted space around Washington.I don't even know why they bothered to write the rest of the story.
Sheaffer and student pilot Troy Martin were handcuffed and put into police cars. They said they were flying to an air show in North Carolina when the plane entered restricted airspace.
