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Student pilot boards plane, causes Florida airport lockdown
« on: September 20, 2018, 09:42:31 AM »
https://cbs12.com/news/nation-world/student-pilot-boards-plane-causes-florida-airport-lockdown

MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say a 26-year-old student pilot boarded a vacant Airbus 321 American Airlines aircraft in a maintenance facility, causing a short lockdown at Orlando-Melbourne International Airport.


Airport spokeswoman Lori Booker tells news outlets the student drove to the curb outside the airport early Thursday, left his car running, hopped a fence and boarded the plane. A maintenance worker spotted him and police took him into custody.