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USA: Canadian steals airplane hoping to be shoot down by the F-16s

Ellsinore, USA - The 31-year-old seems to have told the police he wanted to commit suicide

"I wanted to commit suicide but I didn't have the courage to do it myself. So I hoped that the American fighters would shoot me down". This is what 31-year-old Turkish-Canadian Adam Dylan Leon seems to have declared to the police once arrested, after stealing on Monday a Cessna 172 aircraft in Canada and flying over three American states (Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois) chased by the F-16s. After...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1102558
Rome, Italy, 04/07/2009 15:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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