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Flight Risk

Posted in Crime by Greg Ross on August 30th, 2008

On May 25, 2003, someone stole a Boeing 727 from an airport in Luanda, Angola. The plane, which had been sitting idle for 14 months, took off without communicating with the tower.

An American mechanic, Ben Charles Padilla, was on board at the time. He has not been seen since.