I live in the Madison area, and had absolutely no clue that any of this drama was playing out until I overheard someone talking about it the next morning:

A pilot who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight
school and was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets,
was taken into custody after he landed on a Missouri highway late today
and took off running, an FBI spokesman said.


The pilot was identified as Yavuz Berke, formerly known as Adam Leon, a
31-year-old naturalized Canadian citizen who was born in Turkey, Kolko
said.

The plane entered American airspace over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula at
4:23 p.m. ET today and was trailed by the military aircraft since 4:43
p.m. as it flew over Minnesota, south through Wisconsin, Illinois and
Missouri.

At one point, the Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison was evacuated as a precaution as the plane flew over the city.

Wow. This went completely unmentioned on the radio news stations. I feel like I’ve failed some test of Blogger Awareness. Glad I’m not the only one to have been caught unawares.

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