WAUSAU, Wis. — The suspected pilot of a plane stolen from Canada and flown into the U.S. trailed by fighter jets was captured Monday night near the rural road in Missouri where it landed.
The single-engine Cessna was intercepted by U.S. fighter jets over Wisconsin, and it prompted the evacuation of the state capitol but kept flying south after the pilot failed to respond to radio calls and other signals.
Mike Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado, said the Cessna 172 was stolen from a flight school in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The pilot landed on a road in far southeastern Missouri, officials said, and a man named Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was taken into custody. More details were not immediately available.
