According to reports from Atlanta's NBC affiliate WXIA-TV, a plane stolen from St. Augustine, Florida has mysteriously appeared right here in my hometown of Lawrenceville, GA. (To watch video of the report, click here.)
What is particularly troubling is that police have "narrowed down" the plane's arrival time at Briscoe Field in Gwinnett County to between 9:00 PM Saturday and 6:30 AM Sunday. That is a mighty big window of time. How is it possible that we can't say more precisely when this plane landed?
Briscoe Field may sound familiar to you. It should. Two of the hijackers who crashed airliners into the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, trained at Briscoe Field. Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi did flight training at the Lawrenceville airport about eight months before the attacks.
According to our local newspaper, The Gwinnett Daily Post,
The flight crew responsible for the plane was on a chartered flight to St. Augustine. Crew members discovered the jet was missing when they went to check on it Monday morning, said Sgt. D. Mattox of the Gwinnett County Police Department.
... Whoever stole the jet didn’t file a flight plan, which authorities said is somewhat unusual for that size of aircraft.
It isn't that unusual if you're a CRIMINAL or a TERRORIST, right?
In her column today, Michelle Malkin asks a really good question.
How does a $7 million charter jet just disappear from Florida and mysteriously appear in Atlanta without anyone finding out until after the plane has landed and the pilot(s) disappeared?
Someone had darn well better come up with a good answer to this question and fast—then close this obvious hole in our nation's homeland security.
