KC based pilot used the word "hostile" and all Hell broke loose

That "no joking" and "watch what you say" rule at the airport is getting really serious when F-16s and the FBI are the ones to enforce it. Also, add this 7,892 reasons nobody wants to fly anymore . . . Also, this story would be hilarious if it wasn't true:
"A Kansas City-based pilot flying a small private plane Monday evening learned that lesson when an air traffic controller talking with the pilot feared the plane had been taken over by a hostile party.

The pilot was flying a business plane from Oklahoma to Kansas City — a trip that the plane’s owner, physician Kenneth E. Mann, said he takes at least twice a week to provide treatment at several hospitals.

Mann had been dropped off in Oklahoma, and the pilot, who Mann said preferred to stay unnamed, was flying over Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma on his way back to the Kansas City area.

As a courtesy, the pilot informed the air traffic tower at the base that he was entering the base’s airspace.

When asked over the radio what his destination was, the pilot, a 10-year-plus veteran with commercial airlines and private industry, said he preferred not to say.

Mann said that under the circumstances the pilot was not required to give a destination.

“He didn’t say hijack. … He was trying to explain why he didn’t have to give his destination,” Mann said.

“We work in a hostile business environment,” he said, and competitors could try to use such information to steal clients.

The pilot was speaking about a “hostile takeover” of a company, said Maj. Roger Yates of the Clay County Sheriff’s Department.

The air traffic controller frantically tried to verify what he had heard, but the pilot had turned off his radio, Yates said.

Mann said the pilot had switched to a general aviation channel.

Within moments, federal aviation authorities scrambled F-16s to intercept the plane just outside of Oklahoma City and escort it to the Clay County airport near Mosby.


Once on the ground, more than a dozen armed federal agents and tactical deputies from the Sheriff’s Department surrounded the plane.


The pilot, whose name was not released Tuesday, was taken into the airport terminal building and interviewed for two hours by federal authorities.

Mann said that within less than an hour, FBI agents had tracked him as the owner of the plane and showed up on the doorstep of his home."
Also, if this story makes you feel safer . . . You're stupid.

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