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January 6, 2002

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[Times photo: John Pendygraft]
A small, single-engine aircraft crashed into the 28th floor of Bank of America Plaza in downtown Tampa on Saturday, flown by a 15-year-old student pilot who took off minutes earlier without permission from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. Story

Pilot did chores for flight time
PALM HARBOR -- Charles J. Bishop was a familiar face around the flight school at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport where he was learning to fly.

Crash offers a test run for terror response
From the 27th floor of a nearby office tower, it sure looked like a terror attack.

Witnesses feared repeat of Sept. 11
TAMPA -- Working at her law firm Saturday, Monica Lothrop was startled by a loud boom. She had no idea what it could be. She and her husband were the only people on the 28th floor of Bank of America Plaza.

Mary Jo Melone
My Volvo, my friend, lurching on the way out
Iowned a black Ford Escort until it spun out of control across two lanes of I-275 and into the median near Busch Boulevard and somehow hurt nobody. Before that, I owned a Renault Alliance, which mercifully is a brand forgotten.

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