Someone has stolen Jason Hong’s 1958 Cessna Skyhawk plane at least four times, taking the red single-engine plane for a joyride, and then returned it at airports in Southern California. Hong, and police, are baffled as to who, and why?

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    TIL you can just fly a plane out of an airport and into another without having to talk with any other human being.

    I would have thought there would have to be some kind of record, communication with the tower? Flight plan? No? Nothing? Just like taking a car out of a driveway?

    • tyler@programming.dev
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      20 days ago

      They might but they’re communicating with the radio and what identification is going to be checked? A call sign at the most.