Man steals airplane at Addison Airport, crashes it near Red River
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) along with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) are investigating an airplane crash that originated from Addison Airport.
At around 8:00pm on Wednesday evening, a man stole a Cessna 172SP (tail N23107) from the ATP Flight School at Addison Airport. According to Aviation Safety Network, the man radioed KADS Tower that he was “not going to listen to KADS Tower’s instructions”, was “heading to east Texas” and would “pull the com 1 circuit breaker and com 2 circuit breaker as soon as [he] un keys the mic.”
At approximately 8:26pm, he crashed the airplane in an open field near Telephone, Texas not far from the Texas/Oklahoma border.
The man has been identified as 23-year-old from Stokesdale, North Carolina. He was pronounced deceased at the accident scene. It is unknown if he was a student pilot and/or a student at the ATP Flight School.
The FAA and NTSB have taken over the investigation.
