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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AquaShrimp on April 16, 2007, 05:49:37 AM
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Hijacked Helicopter Busts Inmate Out of Jail
AP
BRUSSELS, Belgium (April 15) - Two men hijacked a helicopter Sunday and forced the pilot to land in a prison courtyard, where they picked up an inmate in a dramatic jailbreak, the pilot told Belgian television.
The accomplices paid for a helicopter ride at an airstrip near the city of Sint-Truiden, about 40 miles east of Brussels, saying they were tourists from Marseilles in southern France, pilot Eric Mathieu told the RTL-TVI network.
After takeoff, they produced a pistol and hand-grenade, ordering Mathieu to fly to Lantin prison outside nearby Liege.
"They pointed a revolver at my forehead," Mathieu told RTBF television. "The prison yard was so small, at first I refused to land there, but they threatened to kill me, so I had to do it."
Mathieu said he touched down while about 200 prisoners were exercising in the yard. One climbed on board while his accomplices threw tear gas canisters into the crowd.
The helicopter then landed less than a half-mile from the prison, where the three men got in a waiting car and drove away, VRT television news said.
RTL-TVI identified the fugitive as a Frenchman who was in pretrial detention on charges of fraud and theft. RTBF said he had previously escaped from prisons in France and Spain.
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Hahahah
Ten points for finesse
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That has been done in the states some time back. There was even a movie featuring that kind of operation. Now the prisons have wires strung across the yards to prevent any helicopter from landing inside the prison grounds.
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Originally posted by Maverick
That has been done in the states some time back. There was even a movie featuring that kind of operation. Now the prisons have wires strung across the yards to prevent any helicopter from landing inside the prison grounds.
Yea I remember that too.
These are the kind of escapes where in a weird way, you almost admire and root for the escapee just because of the daring and ingenuity involved.
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Video
http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/myndskeid.html?file_id=16842
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Was done in a movie back in the late 60s.. next :p
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I can recall something similar down here a while back....20 years or so.
You gotta hand it to them, ten points for audacity.
For some reason it brings to my mind a picture something like those photos you see of the last choppers out of Saigon from the embassy roof.
I can just see all these crims trying to scramble aboard.
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and the guards were doing what?
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choking on tear-gas.
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One of the state-side incidents was the prisoner's wife who held the pilot at gunpoint to fly her husband out of the yard. IIRC, they caught them shortly after.
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The guards were probably frantically trying to get permission to shoot at the helo, followed by looking for the key to get the ammo and guns out of the lockers, followed by watching the helo fly off before they were able or permitted to do anything about it.
Too bad they didn't just open fire on the helo. Anyone near the helo attempting to board is trying to escape, and therefore a fair target. Sucks to be the pilot but you can't allow this sort of thing...
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We had that happen here in S.C. years ago. The officers in the yard do not even carry PR-24s in this state, that alone guns. There are no wires hanging over the yard. There are no towers with armed officers anymore in this State because it cost too much. If the public knew how little control we have, maybe we could get the funding we need. There is only one officers watching 130 inmates in a dorm at a deathrow institution and only one officer per wing on deathrow itself. I'm not going to get into anymore detail because it would make it even more unsafe for my coworkers.
P.S. The policies of a prison are written in a way that the officers can NOT follow and get his/her work done, so when things go wrong he/she can be blamed.
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This happened in France. I doubt very many of us have any idea how the guards are equiped inside the institution. One news report said this happened during the open yard time of day when there were a bunch of inmates outside of the cell blocks.
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In March 1999, Lucy Dudko hijacked a helicopter during a joy-flight over Sydney and ordered the pilot to land inside Silverwater Jail where her lover, John Killick, was serving 28 years for armed robberies.
The helicopter plucked Killick from the prison's exercise yard and avoided a shower of bullets fired by prison guards. The couple then went on the run, eluding police around the country until their luck ran out in a Sydney caravan park six weeks later.
SMH (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/13/1071125710695.html?from=storyrhs)
Tronsky
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Sniffs bait, swims away....
Mac