PALO ALTO, Calif. (KRON) – KRON4 talked to an air travel professional today concerning how a Florida man was able to steal a plane from the Palo Alto Airport prior to collapsing it in Half Moon Bay on Thursday. He was not a accredited pilot.
An employee at the airport invested Friday mid-day fixing a fencing that was reduced open. Investigators think this is how a man entered into the airport Thursday evening.
San Mateo County Sheriff’s replacements state 50-year-old Luiz Gustavo Aires took the 1960s Citabria plane, flew it, and collapsed it nose-down in the sand in Half Moon Bay.
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“Been doing this almost 20 years and this is a first for me,” stated Sergeant Javier Acosta.
Acosta claims replacements jailed Aires as he was leaving after crash-landing the plane simply southern of Poplar Beach. Several individuals got on the coastline when the plane boiled down, and nobody was wounded.
KRON4 talked to aeronautics professional Ross Aimer that stated he might not locate Aires in the signed up data source of pilots. But he claims Aires had to have some expertise of the plane that they call a “tail dragger.”
“It’s harder to fly it, as what you saw, the way it crashed onto the beach, he probably tried to land on the beach, but being a tail dragger kind of hard to land and the prop caught the sand and went down nose-down into the sand,” he stated.
He additionally claims the 1960s plane is very easy to steal.
“May not even have a conventional ignition stick, so easy to hot-wire,” he stated.
Aires was reserved and billed with aircraft burglary.
