Airport Crime

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:20 pm

I hope we catch the SOB's that did this. A good friend lost his plane last night. A couple of yahoo's removed the cowling from my friend's 150 and tried to use a sawzall to cut the engine mounts and remove the motor mount and all. What the idiots weren't counting on was cutting through a fuel line. The fuel splashed on the coleman lantern they were using and *POOF* no more airplane.

More pictures and more story on my website: http://airprayer.net

*sigh* I guess it's just a sign of the times we're in.

Post by **bullojm1** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:58 pm

Wow, that's really sad. It's terrible to see how low people will sink to steal.

Post by **Spike** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:18 am

Absolutely horrendous. There might be some good news in the economy we are in. He can probably get a good buy with the insurance money on another 150. Hopefully he can work it to his advantage.

painless · Post by **painless** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:26 am

Just curious Scott.....Does this airport have a perimeter fence?

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:09 am

painless wrote:Just curious Scott.....Does this airport have a perimeter fence?

It does but it's easy enough to hop over in places. You need a card key to get a vehicle onto the field but if you hop the fence with a shovel and then lay it on the sensor inside the gate you can get your truck in without a key. Our thought is that this is someone who knows there way around airplanes.

painless · Post by **painless** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:14 am

svanarts wrote:
painless wrote:Just curious Scott.....Does this airport have a perimeter fence?
It does but it's easy enough to hop over in places. You need a card key to get a vehicle onto the field but if you hop the fence with a shovel and then lay it on the sensor inside the gate you can get your truck in without a key. Our thought is that this is someone who knows there way around airplanes.

Interesting. I suppose you could do the same thing at MNM where they just spent $800,000 for the first phase of installing a new fence and now want to spend another 1 mil. to complete it. What a waste.

Hope they catch these knuckleheads.

jsherblon · Post by **jsherblon** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:30 am

That stinks. Was that at O27?

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:49 pm

Sure was Jim. Lodi has even less security. Keep your eyes pealed.