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Canadian plane thief sentenced to two years in U.S. prison
Canwest News Service: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A Canadian man who stole a plane from his flying school in Thunder Bay, Ont., in April and flew it across three American states has been sentenced in Missouri to 24 months in a federal prison.
Adam Dylan Leon, a Turkish-Canadian citizen, stole a Cessna 172 training aircraft, took off without permission and failed to make any radio contact with authorities in the U.S.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection plane and two Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16 jet fighters chased Leon after he crossed the U.S. border.
Crazy Thieving Pilot Gets Two Years Prison
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