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Tuesday, September 13, 1994
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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Plane wreck raises doubts
South Lawn doubles as pilot's landing pad
If so, there apparently was no time to reach for those missiles early yesterday morning as the stolen plane slammed into the South Lawn, without a single Secret Service shot being fired at it. The pilot was killed.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Everyone agrees it shouldn't have happened. Security should be good enough to prevent someone from flying a plane onto the White House grounds.
But security experts say there are limits to what can be done to protect the White House against all contingencies, especially threats like that posed by the low-flying Cessna 150 that wound up in a pile of tangled metal alongside the White House early yesterday.
The Secret Service doesn't discuss what it has in place for protection. But it is known that agency sharphooters are stationed on the roof during daylight hours. And security forces have been reported to be equipped with shoulder-fired Stinger missiles.
How much time was there between when the Secret Service knew aplane was headed their way and the impact?
"I think time enough to run for cover," Carl Meyer, a Secret Service representative, told reporters at the White House. "I don't think there was all that much time, to be quite honest with you."
An intensive investigation was quickly begun, and not just by the Secret Service. The crash simply should not have happened, said Transportation Secretary Federico Pena. "This is a secure airspace. It is constantly under surveillance."
But the plane appeared to fly at treetop level, apparently evading radar, authorities said. And it may not have had in operation a transponder that is supposed to help air controllers pinpoint the location of all aircraft.
Ron Coddington / Knight-Ridder Tribune
Plane crashes at White House
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a bizarre breach of security, a stolen plane darted unchallenged over the White House fence yesterday, slammed down on the South Lawn and cartwheeled against the mansion just below President Clinton's private quarters.
The pilot, killed in the crash, was identified as Maryland truck driver Frank Corder, said to have a history of mental illness. Clinton and his family were not in the White House when the small, single-engine plane hit at 1:49 a.m. They were staying in a government guest house across the street because of White House repairs.
Security agents spotted the incoming plane only at the last second, with just "enough time to run for cover," Secret Service representative Carl Meyer said.
Avenue, which Clinton had been crossing each day between Blair House and the White House, was closed for most of the day.
White House security was immediately tightened. Pennsylvania
"This has been quite an unusual day here at the White House," Hillary Rodham Clinton told a group of guests. Before the wreckage was carted off, she was seen peering at it from a balcony.
The plane was stolen Sunday evening from a small airfield in Harford County near Baltimore. Witnesses said it flew into Washington from the north, heading down 17th Street toward the Potomac River.
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