15-year-old crashes plane into Florida skyscraper

A 15-year-old boy has died after crashing a light aircraft into a 42-storey skyscraper in Florida yesterday.

Sun, 06 Jan, 2002 - 08:39

A 15-year-old boy has died after crashing a light aircraft into a 42-storey skyscraper in Florida yesterday.

Charles Bishop took off without permission from the National Aviation Academy flight school, ignored a coastguard instruction to land and guided the four-seater Cessna into the Bank of America building.

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