After a story about the July 26, 2012, arrest of a glider pilot for flying in unrestricted airspace over a nuclear power plant made waves in the aviation community and beyond recently, an official with the sheriff’s department that made the arrest said in a post at AOPA.org that his department had learned several lessons on how to better respond in the future. Check it out here.
About Janice Wood
Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.
Reader Interactions
Share this story
Become better informed pilot.
Join 110,000 readers each month and get the latest news and entertainment from the world of general aviation direct to your inbox, daily.
Still not sure why they didn’t give him the option to be questioned on his own free will. He probably would have complied if given the option. Arresting him is not the only option they had in order to question him.
So the sheriff’s idea of ‘deescalating’ a situation is to throw a pilot into jail on a trumped up charge.
He’s still a bonehead.