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- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -0/+39GET TO DA CHOPPA!
- palmer, on 04/07/2009, -2/+39Why mod this guy down?
Having AUDIO ads on your site is utterly clueless and OFFENSIVE.
Digg embarrasses itself and insults its users with this garbage. Way to bring yourself down to the level of a porn site, Digg. - zoom1928, on 04/07/2009, -0/+37Damn these screaming ads are annoying. I really don't need to hear some moron yelling "STATE OF PLAY" over and over again while at work.
- cshipley, on 04/07/2009, -0/+35Grand theft airplane?
- dremango, on 04/07/2009, -0/+30cnn.com:
The pilot of a stolen Cessna has landed off Highway 60 in Missouri and is on the run, NORAD said. - Maynza, on 04/07/2009, -3/+33Now that is how you cross the border illegally. Mexicans take note.
- buddypriefert, on 04/07/2009, -3/+30"The pilot (of the small Cesna prop plane) had acknowledged seeing the F-16s but he didn't obey their nonverbal commands to follow them"
How does or can a Cesna 172 with a max airspeed of about 120knts "follow" an F-16 jet who's minimum airspeed is about 180kts before stalling? - Manooshi, on 04/07/2009, -3/+29Yeah, what are these ***** ads on the right that play automatically? Totally lame, Digg. Not cool.
- TexasKoz, on 04/07/2009, -0/+23Flash Blocker!!!
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 04/07/2009, -7/+28They emptied the capital and deployed F-16s over a Cessna? Are we going to evacuate the mall and deploy M1 Abrams the next time someone carjacks a Toyota?
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -19/+38I am getting real sick of these talk Digg ads to the right.
Is this another way to get rid of conservative diggers? - DecoyQ, on 04/07/2009, -0/+19or adblock works as well.
- cshipley, on 04/07/2009, -0/+13And you would rather what? that they ran them into buildings? Sometimes anti-climactic is good.
- omenmedia, on 04/07/2009, -7/+20Oh, so they swiftly dispatch two F-16s to chase an errant Cessna, but multiple large jetliners with radical course changes and disabled transponders... that's too much of a hassle? Yeah yeah, I know, we are post-9/11 now. That Cessna could have made a severe crack in a window.
- wing05, on 04/07/2009, -0/+13Security by obscurity?
It's a flight school and they figured that the general public has no idea how to start and fly a plane so they don't have propper key managment for their flying stock.
Just like the highway road crews leave default passwords on those solar charged information road signs and many other things... - offrdbandit, on 04/07/2009, -4/+17You forget the guy who crashed a Cessna into an office building in Tampa 1/6/2002?
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1744923.stm - tref, on 04/07/2009, -1/+13reminds me of the time sideshow bob stole the wright brother's plane
Prepare to engage enemy.
[the jets speed past]
Bogey's air speed not sufficient for intercept. Suggest we get out and walk. - jack104, on 04/07/2009, -0/+12Switching to sidewinders.......got tone........FOX 2.
SCCCRaattcchhh one cessna. - buddypriefert, on 04/07/2009, -0/+11And so you would recommend deploying.......eh.......another Cesna to chase the plane?
- BuzzEdition, on 04/07/2009, -2/+12My post has been updating all day. The entire story is available at it's original source. And thanks Hdar3415 for the apology ;)
- o5rob5o, on 04/07/2009, -0/+9Good thing he didnt fly over to the tallest building in the city eject over the roof, and do the unlimited weapons cheat.
- CrazedLeper, on 04/07/2009, -1/+10Yeah, I can think of one day, in particular, we didn't see it: 9/11/01. Where the hell were the F-16s then? Four airliners are loose for an hour and not one F-16 was available?
- hdar3415, on 04/07/2009, -1/+10To bad Digg can't update your title and description. Maybe we should make a suggestion to Kevin about providing a way to do so.
- masamunecyrus, on 04/07/2009, -0/+8"The pilot had acknowledged seeing the F-16s but he didn't obey their nonverbal commands to follow them, Kucharek said."
I don't think I'd ignore the non-verbal commands if I had one of these on both sides of me.
http://citizenx.org/wp-content/f16.jpg - grovest4life, on 04/07/2009, -3/+11you can load more explosives in the Corrolla than you can load in a Cessna 172.
- TheBigBad, on 04/07/2009, -0/+7Canadians covet their cheese.
- FOR3MAN, on 04/07/2009, -0/+7Highway to the danger zone!
- BoneStamp, on 04/07/2009, -0/+7That's why you need more than one F16, so one can always have him in their sights.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -0/+7Why the ***** would anyone want to come here to Poplar Bluff... if anything you think someone would steal a plane to escape form here.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 04/07/2009, -0/+7With all the time I spend on Digg I sometimes turn off ad block to let them get some money from my clicks. Then I see ***** like this (constantly) and I turn it back off.
- BoneStamp, on 04/07/2009, -1/+7This story states the guy jumped the air port fence and got in a plane that had keys in the ignition... Who leave the keys to an airplane in the ignition?!?
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/614761 - X9001, on 04/07/2009, -0/+6Its kinda annoying, especially when you are playing loud music
- Dougman82, on 04/07/2009, -0/+6Ha ha! The best part of that one was when the plane crashed into the house and bounced off.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -3/+9It was the FAA's fault for failing to tell NORAD in time of the hijacked planes.
- hdar3415, on 04/07/2009, -2/+7Never mind, BuzzEdition's submission has been updated.
- ionelementz112, on 04/07/2009, -0/+5Looks like we need a really tall fence on the Canadian border.
- Sogui, on 04/07/2009, -1/+6Ads? Oh yea I remember those.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -12/+17 ... kill yourself
FF + ABP
You're an idiot. - abajaj2280, on 04/07/2009, -0/+5well this is something you don't see every day.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -1/+6They were available. The FAA didn't follow convention and failed to contact NORAD to make it happen though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._military_respons ...
- Bangaarang, on 04/07/2009, -0/+5I was thinking the same thing lol
- offrdbandit, on 04/07/2009, -0/+5@pilot3033
No, small planes are not large threats. Had the plane been a large threat, he would have been shot down somewhere safe. Avoiding a bad ending doesn't justify letting planes cross the border uncontrolled. If nothing else, this was a fantastic test of defense strategy and response time.
I'm not saying the guy was a terrorist, and I'm not saying the guy had any sort of sinister plan, I'm just saying the guy could have had anything in mind. Why not be ready for the worst?
On a completely different note, I'm curious how slowly an f-16 can safely fly. The top speed on the prop plane has to be pretty close to stall speed for a loaded f-16. - wonnk13, on 04/07/2009, -0/+5M1 Abrams may be a bit over the top. I think a couple of bradley fighting vehicles would work better.
- sig331, on 04/07/2009, -0/+5Who would attack Wisconsin?
- haikuFU, on 04/07/2009, -0/+4Having to mute my speakers at work when I want to browse Digg is a sure way to keep me away from the site. Audio ads are NOT work friendly, and may people browse this site at work.
- kemp34, on 04/07/2009, -1/+5stand down
- Mohdoo, on 04/07/2009, -0/+4I used to have ad-block+ not block adds from Digg because it was a site I appreciated and wanted to support. And though this is the case, I will not allow audio adds. I now block digg adds.
- Resistoon, on 04/07/2009, -1/+5"The pilot was flying erratically and didn't communicate with the fighter pilots from the Wisconsin Air National Guard who intercepted the plane at the Michigan-Wisconsin border, he said."
He probably didn't communicate with the fighter pilots because he couldn't. Civilian aviation radios use VHF and military use UHF, so there is no way to talk to each other directly. - Ajajadude, on 04/07/2009, -0/+4Yeah, since people stealing planes usually leads to good things happening.
There aren't too many commercial/private planes out there capable of taking down another commercial/private plane. What else are they going to do? - sKiLLa182, on 04/07/2009, -0/+4They had one. A US Customs and Boarder protection aircraft was following it. Probably much slower than an F16.
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