Wed, Sep 12, 2007

IN Police Searching For Apparent Airplane Thief Wannabe

Maybe He Just Wanted A Salad

A twin-engine plane was found in a soybean field Sunday at LaPorte Municipal Airport in Indiana. The plane, type unreported, was covered in soybeans that had been chopped up -- and tossed -- by the props.

Investigators told the Associated Press there were few clues about the incident, which appears to have been an attempted theft.

Whoever moved the aircraft, was apparently unable to negotiate a curve leading to the runway from the terminal area where it had been parked, and taxied the plane into the field.

"It has to be somebody who's familiar with planes," said LaPorte police chief of detectives Dennis Behenna.

It's not immediately known if there was any structural damage to the aircraft, owned by Delaware-based Longin Consultants, he said. (FAA records show a Beechcraft King Air C90 registered to a company by that name -- Ed.)

Five headsets were also reported missing from the aircraft, Behenna said. Each had a value of about $1,000.

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