Despite the city’s high security level and national terrorism warning, a small plane was able to enter LaGuardia Airport airspace without permission, fly along the East River and circle the Statue of Liberty, and a bus was stolen from the city’s bus terminal and driven to Kennedy Airport the same day. A police helicopter with machine-gun armed officers escorted the plane to an airport on Long Island, said the plane’s pilot, Richard Langone. “I was scared to death,” Langone, 47, of Atlantic Beach, told the New York Post. He said he got confused Sunday while returning home from Poughkeepsie and flew through the restricted airspace by mistake. Full Story
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