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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

That stinks. Was that at O27?

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