Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Connell's ill-fated flight originated from airport only 50 vetted people can use

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU
 
CLG_News Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:38 PM
Original message
Connell's ill-fated flight originated from airport only 50 vetted people can use
Connell Crash 'Oddities' --Recently subpoenaed Bush/Rove IT expert is Wellstoned. By Lori Price 22 Dec 2008 Michael Connell's ill-fated flight originated from airport only 50 people can use. College Park Airport users are vetted -- including fingerprinting -- in an 'extensive process,' and there are 'significantlimitations' as to how the airport can be used.

Aero-TV Sepcial Report: Historic College Park Airport Struggles to Stay Alive 02 Apr 2008 'After 9/11, hard times came to College Park. Security issues, the TSA, FAA, a number of government agencies deicided that operating out of College Park presented a danger to the nation. Or, more specifially, to the nation's capital. We still don't exactly understand how. But since 2001, well, College Park has pretty much been under lock and key. You have to be vetted, you have to go through an extensive process -- fingerprinting, background -- you name it. And then there are significant limitations as to how you can use this airport. One of the most amazing little airports in the nation, is basically only to be used now by about fifty people at this point that have stuck it out...'

<snip>
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:45 PM
Response to Original message
1. Another interesting tidbit.. I expect that only very well
connected pilots are allowed to use it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:41 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. Unless their longevity is suspect?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:56 PM
Response to Original message
2. Kick and Rec 5. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CLG_News Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:03 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. Thank you! n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:38 PM
Response to Original message
4. Connell's death is too much of a lucky coincidence...
for Bush/Cheney for me to believe it was an accident. He was murdered. So was Wellstone.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:42 PM
Response to Original message
6. The airport website doesn't make it look all that hard to get
to use the airport. It looks like a big inconvenience. You have to go there and person and get finger printed and fill out a form and show your license and lastest physical and stuff like that. But it says once you get the clearance its good for other small fields near DC too. So I guess all the small fields near DC have this limitation and anybody who wants to fly a private plane to DC must have to go through the process. It must be more than 50 people.

http://www.collegeparkairport.org/ click "want to fly in here" then "vetting procedures."

Vetting procedures to fly into College Park
Updated on November 2, 2007.
Everything below is our UNOFFICIAL plain english translation of the required procedures. For the official procedures to get clearance to fly into College Park, please visit:

http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/ga/editorial_1831.shtm

Here is our version of all of this.

First of all, a few ground rules.
1) Student Pilots must wait until they pass their checkride to apply. Student pilots cannot be vetted to fly (solo) into the DC-3. Vetted instructors are always welcome to bring their students in, however.
2) Once you start the process, you have 90 days to complete it, or you must start over.
3) The steps below are numbered in the order that you must complete them.

Step 1: Baltimore FSDO
Call the Baltimore FSDO at 410-787-0040, and request an appointment for them to examine your pilot certificate and medical. The FAA Inspector who meets you will examine your pilot certificate and medical, and perform a quick records check to verify that you have no outstanding violations.


The Baltimore FSDO is located here.
The FSDO will NOT sign the PIN Issuance Form. They notify the TSA electronically. Do not panic. Just write the date of your visit on your form.
Note: If you are looking for a PIN code out of Hyde or Potomac, use the Dulles FSDO.

Step 2: TSA Fingerprinting
You must visit the TSA fingerprinting office at Washington National Airport. They are open (no appointment necessary) Monday thru Friday, from 7:30am-3pm, excluding federal holidays. The office closes from 12-1 for a lunch break. We've found the best success when going first thing in the morning.
The office is in Terminal A. You can take the Metro from College Park to the National Airport Station, by taking the Green Line to the Yellow Line. Follow the signs for a shuttle to Terminal A. If driving, park in the daily/hourly garage* for Terminal A, take the elevator to level "W." At the end of the tunnel to terminal A, go up the escalator, and thru the electric doors. Then turn left down the corridor. Take the elevator down to the basement ground floor, following the signs to "OPERATIONS." The security office is in room A1-176.
Show your PIN Issuance Form, with your parts of it completed, to the TSA representative, and they will fingerprint you, and give you a questionnaire to fill out. You must pay $27.00 for the privilege. The fingerprinting technician may ask for processing codes which are "SON=644F" and "SOI=TD30." These codes are important, make sure that they get them!
The TSA rep no longer needs to sign your PIN Issuance Form. Just write on the form the date that you were there. (They send us an e-mail.)

*Note: If you choose to drive, keep your parking ticket with you, and the Fingerprinting office will validate it for you.
Step 3: The ALTERNATIVE to the dreaded Security Video
Yes, you no longer have to watch the security video! Instead, print out your graduation certificate from The FAA's Online ADIZ course. Please note that you need to register at FAASafety.gov to take it, but there's lots of good stuff to check out there. If you bring in this certificate, we will brief you on the security procedures, sign your paperwork, and you'll be good to go.

We will collect your now completed PIN Issuance Form here, (and give you a copy for your records) and then call you back when your PIN number comes through. The TSA says anywhere from 1-8 weeks, but the average of late has been 3-4 weeks. We usually get our new PIN numbers on Friday mornings, so the best time to call us and inquire about the status of your PIN number is either Friday afternoon or Monday. If you call us on Thursday, we'll just give you a dumb look over the phone!

Step 4: Come on down!!!
You must file your FRZ flight plan with the Lockheed Martin Washington Hub (which currently comprises briefers in Raleigh, NC and Leesburg, VA.) Dial their direct number at 866-225-7410. Do NOT use the national 800-WX-BRIEF number, do NOT use DUATs, and do NOT try to file in the air, or you will NOT pass Go!

Your PIN code is also valid for flights into Hyde (Washington Executive) and Potomac Airfields. Just make sure that the briefer knows that your PIN code is listed with the College Park codes, as they have a separate page for codes "based" at each airport.

From here, you'll fly in just like any other ADIZ flight. Get your squawk code before you enter the ADIZ, and keep it all the way to the ground here in College Park. ATC *might* direct you over either Freeway or Tipton airports. If ATC forces you to fly too far out of your way, please let the staff know about it. We're keeping track of this, in an effort to reduce unwanted detours.
Back to Home Page
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
FraDon Donating Member (316 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:07 PM
Response to Original message
7. Why wack somebody with a plane ? • Because is works SO well.
Kills so thoroughly. Destroys so much evidence. Changes the script so definitively.

IF an independent investigation (I know, I know, what are the chances of THAT?) finds remains, objectively matched to Connell, than I must assume they found the backups (or think they did).

There may be no remains or no conclusive match (a whole plane supposedly vaporized at the pentagon on 9/11, with virtually nothing to scrape up). Convenient.

Then again, they may NOT have the backups, and might HAVE Connell AND, the best part, have him out of the script at the same time. Convenient.

Spycraft, muthafukha. Hardball. You can't HANDLE the truth !

When it seems TOO convenient, ask "Who benefits?"
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:22 PM
Response to Original message
8. Next door to NSA
I've landed at the Laurel airport just up the road from College Park to visit someone at the NSA.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:21 PM
Response to Original message
9. Do you have a list of those 50 people? nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:26 PM
Response to Original message
10. Check out all these unexpected deaths of people involved with elections
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Check-out-all-these-unexpe-by-Pokey-Anderson-081221-175.html

Check out all these unexpected deaths of people involved with elections

by Pokey Anderson Page 1 of 2 page(s)

www.opednews.com

2
votesBuzz up!


SAVE FAVORITESVIEW FAVORITES



Keep your coincidence caps handy, folks. People involved in elections and voting machine companies seem very unlucky. Especially those in Ohio (4 of the 7) and Georgia (2 of the 7).

--Pokey Anderson



1. Dan Rocco -- April 1, 2002 -- ChoicePoint VP -- plane crash
He died on April 1, 2002, in a plane crash in Gainesville, Georgia. He was an executive vice president at ChoicePoint, the firm that gained infamy with their faulty "felons" list supplied to Katherine Harris during the 2000 election in Florida. As a result of this list, over 90,000 voters (mostly African-American voters) were wrongly identified as felons and purged from the rolls.
http://www.bk2k.com/bushbodycount/stolen-election/bodies.shtml


2. Wesley Vance -- April 26, 2003 -- Diebold VP -- plane crash
Pilot Killed In Plane Crash Was Top Exec At Diebold
April 28, 2003
http://www.wkbn.com/Global/story.asp?S=1253108
(Jackson-AP) -- The pilot of a single-engine airplane that crashed in southern Ohio over the weekend was the chief operating officer of Canton-based Diebold Incorporated.
The company says 45-year-old Wesley Vance of Canton was flying a private plane that crashed Saturday near the Jackson County Airport. ...The company says Vance joined Diebold in October, 2000, as president of its North America business unit. He was named chief operating officer in 2001. Chief Executive Walden O'Dell will assume the company's daily operational responsibilities until a successor is found for Vance. An airport spokesman says Vance was practicing takeoffs and landings in a six-seat Beachcraft A-36 when it crashed near the airport.



~~~

http://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/vance05-02-03.htm

Vance was an Eagle Scout, elected to Boys State, and a church-going Mormon, married, father of five. He earned a degree from Brigham Young University. He was described as a confident person who people liked to be around. His senior class in high school voted him "favorite boy". He had been a pilot for over twenty years. He was named to Diebold's No. 2 position as COO in 2001, managing the company's global operations.


3. Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr. -- July 4, 2003 -- Diebold consultant -- cause of death not confirmed
Anthony Celebrezze Dies
07/05/03
<http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1057397985113640.xml>

Former Ohio Attorney General Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, died yesterday in an Urbana hospital. Champaign County Coroner Joshua Richards confirmed that Celebrezze died about 9 p.m. yesterday, but would not confirm a cause of death.

Celebrezze, a Democrat of Columbus, was a stalwart in Cleveland and Ohio politics.... He was 38 when he was elected secretary of state in 1978.

He was Ohio attorney general from 1983 to 1991, and Ohio secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. Celebrezze ran against George Voinovich for governor in 1990 but lost.

Wayne Hill, Celebrezze's longtime communications director during the 1978 campaign for secretary of state and then attorney general, was in shock at Celebrezze's death yesterday.

Hill said Celebrezze, who enjoyed racing cars, was at Shady Bowl Speedway in De Graff for a Fourth of July race when he felt ill. De Graff is west of Columbus.

"It's beyond a shock. Tony had a passion for racing," said Hill in a telephone interview. "It's unbelievable. It's not right."

...After his loss to Voinovich, Celebrezze joined the law firm of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, and recently was a consultant for Diebold Inc., promoting electronic voting machines.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:39 PM
Response to Reply #10
15. There are no coincidences.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:31 PM
Response to Original message
11. Rec'd. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CLG_News Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:51 PM
Response to Reply #11
18. Nc4bo: That Obama pie image is great!!!
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 12:52 PM by CLG_News
Thank you for the rec, as well!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:11 PM
Response to Original message
12. K and R nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:42 PM
Response to Original message
13. Needs more
:kick:

Thanks Lori! Still you there? :hi:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:45 PM
Response to Original message
14. Would that be 49 now? n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:43 PM
Response to Original message
16. K & R!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CLG_News Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:49 PM
Response to Original message
17. New 'Odditiy' added to page:
...'Connell was apparently told not to fly his plane, because it might have been sabotaged.' (19 Action News Video) 21 Dec 2008
http://www.legitgov.org/connell_crash_oddities.html
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Mon Feb 10th 2025, 08:43 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC