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A small plane stolen by a student from an aviation center in Canada's Ontario Province, landed near a Missouri highway Monday and the pilot is now on the run, U.S. federal aviation officials said.
A U.S. Federal Aviation official said that the single-engine plane was tracked by two U.S. fighter jets when it flew into the United State, and it landed on a dirt road at Ellsinore, southeast of Missouri. The pilot ran away after the plane landed and local police were responding.
Two F-16 fighters had been dispatched to track the plane which was taken at about 2:30 p.m. from the Aviation Centre of Excellence at Thunder Bay's Confederation College in Ontario.
Fighter pilots intercepted the plane at the border between the states of Michigan and Wisconsin, according to a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado.
As the plane flew over Madison, Wisconsin, the state capitol building was evacuated shortly after 5 p.m. as a precaution.
The pilot acknowledged seeing the F-16s but refused to communicate with any authorities, U.S officials said. |
