A small, private plane crashed into a downtown Tampa office building Saturday evening, killing the lone occupant, a 15-year-old student pilot, authorities said. For onlookers in the city?s downtown area, it was an eerie echo of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, but the FBI determined that the Tampa crash was not the result of a terrorist act. Apparently, he took the plane without authorization… stolen, that is.
Officials at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said two F-15 fighter jets were scrambled from nearby Homestead Air Force Base, in an attempt to track the plane?s movements, but were called off when it was determined they were no longer needed.