I believe the police acted appropriately based upon the information they recieved. It is not their job to verify information given to them from a federal agency. The fault lies with the FAA and other agencies and possibly Cessna who knew this N number had a problem and should have made sure it had been changed. Especially since it had happened before. Has this plane flown since the last time it I think that the FAA also should not reissue numbers from a stolen aircraft in such a short period of time or maybe never reissue them so something like this could not happen again.
If it had not involved a high profile couple it would not even been found on the back page of the arts section. The police were given a report of a stolen aircraft from a government agency. The police have to depend on the reliability of that report and act upon it appropriately. Which is exactly what they did. In todays world after 911 how can they act any other way.
As far as how they handled the situation after the Kings landing to the police they were conducting a felony stop. No different then they would if it was a stolen vehicle. They had no idea who was in that plane. They acted they way they have been trained and the department policy. To do it any other way is how police officers end up dead.
The fault lays with the FAA and the government agencies who handle the registrations and the databases that the information comes from not the police who are doing their jobs. The Kings were only detained and not arrested. Once the info was cleared up they were released. Can it be stressful? Yes. I met the Kings at Oshkosh and even though they may be getting up in years they both appeared to me to be tough people and I am sure they handled it very well. Obviously they figured out a training angle from the situation just like you would expect they would.
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From: Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 2:14 pm
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Video: FAA resolves Kings issue - AOPA
From: Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 2:14 pm
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Video: FAA resolves Kings issue - AOPA
medic, So you think that the police should not verify their information before acting upon that information? As you may note, the police had a couple of hours to perform a verification that should only take a couple of minutes. ============================= Personally, I would be really upset if the police were to come busting down my door for any reason. I would be even more upset if they acted without first verifying the information. ============================= Until you have had some nervous, scared, trigger happy police pointing a gun at you, you havent experienced anything. The last time it happened with my family was when my brother was stopped, right after the World Trade towers were destroyed. He had a hangglider on his car and was driving along hwy 18 in WA, going by the drive- up entrance to Tiger Mt, near Issaquah, headed for the LZ. The police person was scared and shaking. The police person thought that he had just caught a terrorist with a scud missile. Fortunately, another police man, with more familiarity with the area, (or more common sense) came along and stopped the first police person from shooting my brother. R. Williams ---------- Original Message ----------- From: medicbill@aol.com To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:56:03 +0000 Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Video: FAA resolves Kings issue - AOPA > Wrong you are so wrong. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Richard Williams" <rkwill@lewiscounty.com> > Sender: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:14:14 > To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com> > Reply-To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Video: FAA resolves > Kings issue - AOPA > > Rick, > > If you had listened to the video and read the report from AOPA, you > would note that the police DID NOT do their job. If they had spend > even a couple of minutes researching the matter, they would have > realized the plane was not stolen. It is perfectly reasonable for the > police to verify their info before acting. > > R. Williams > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: "Rick Pitcher" <lightflyer@adelphia.net> > To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:35 -0000 > Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Video: FAA resolves > Kings issue - AOPA > > > --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Williams" <rkwill@...> wrote: > > > > > > Fellow pilots, > > > > > > Be sure to read the AOPA report (which indicates that these false stops are getting > to > > > be common occurrences. > > > > > > <http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2010/100831kings.html> > > > > > > R. Williams > > > > Yeah, out of the millions of police stops in this country they do get > > a few wrong. Please people, don't try to blame the police for trying > > to do their jobs. > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links ------- End of Original Message ------- ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: Sport_Aircraft-digest@yahoogroups.com Sport_Aircraft-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Sport_Aircraft-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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