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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- A stolen, single-engine plane being pursued by a Coast Guard helicopter on Saturday slammed halfway up the 41-story Bank of America building in downtown Tampa, authorities said.

"There is no apparent link to terrorism," said FBI spokeswoman Angela Bell.

There were no immediate reports on casualties or injuries as a result of the crash.

Charles J. Bishop, a 15-year-old British national and flight student, jumped into the Cessna 172 at Albert Whitted Municipal Airport in nearby St. Petersburg and took off alone at about 5 p.m., police said.

"We believe he departed without anyone's knowledge, or their giving him the OK to leave," said Pinellas County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Greg Tita.

As the plane took off, air-traffic control alerted the U.S. Coast Guard, which dispatched a helicopter to intercept the Cessna, said Lt. Charlotte Pittman of the Coast Guard. The helicopter's crew, yards away from the Cessna, signaled for it to land at an airport just south of Tampa. Instead, the airplane struck the building without appearing to try to avoid it, witnesses said.

Commercial airports in both Tampa and St. Petersburg temporarily suspended operations following the incident.

The plane's wings tore from the fuselage when it struck the skyscraper near its 23rd and 24th floors, according to Christopher White, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.

The plane's tail was hanging from the side of building, located at 101 E. Kennedy Blvd., and windows on at least two stories had shattered, according to reports. Despite fuel leaks, no fire erupted and the structure remained in tact and safe, city fire and police officials said.

Bishop was "pre-flight authorized," meaning he was authorized to do a pre-flight check but not to get into the plane alone, said a government transportation official.

Bishop, a student at East Lake High School in Palm Harbor, Florida, had taken flying classes for two years, Tita said.

The teen was at the airport with his mother and grandmother performing a pre-flight check when he got into the plane and took off, Tita said.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident and FAA officials are on the scene, White said.

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J - E - T - S, Jets Jets Jets.

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I think this shows particularly bad taste in such a thread as this.

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Urinating Passenger Charged with Threatening Plane

MIAMI (Reuters) - An airline passenger who allegedly urinated on a row of seats and threatened to bring down his Argentina-bound flight in a fireball was indicted in Miami on charges of interfering with a flight crew and making threats on a commercial aircraft, prosecutors say.

The United Airlines flight from New York to Buenos Aires was diverted to Miami International Airport on Christmas Day because of the man's behavior, said U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis.

The suspect, Rodrigo Deambrosio, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the charges, Lewis said Friday.

He said Deambrosio, a waiter from New York, became unruly two hours after the flight left New York's Kennedy airport, cursing at the crew and refusing to return to his seat.

Told the plane would land unless he behaved, Deambrosio urinated in the row of seats where he had been sitting, Lewis said in a news release.

Flight attendants stood guard over him as the plane turned toward Miami. Deambrosio allegedly told them he could not wait to be thrown off the plane because he had placed something aboard that would prevent it from ever reaching Buenos Aires, Lewis said.

"Deambrosio stated that he had ways of putting things on planes because he is a waiter in New York and he knows how the catering service works for the airlines," the prosecutor said.

"Deambrosio then stated that everyone on the plane was going to die in a fireball. ... After landing at Miami International Airport, Deambrosio stated again that the passengers and flight crew would die."

He was arrested after the plane landed safely in Miami and told the crew that he had consumed alcohol, prescription sleeping tablets and cocaine before boarding, Lewis said.

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The scary thing is it isn't just in Tampa. Three other planes crashed in the U.S. today. One in California, and others in Colorado and Puerto Rico....A plane went down on New Year's eve and another two days ago

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Charles J. Bishop, a 15-year-old British national and flight student, jumped into the Cessna 172 at Albert Whitted Municipal Airport in nearby St. Petersburg and took off alone at about 5 p.m., police said.

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Charles J. Bishop, a 15-year-old British national and flight student

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Maybe the bank was going to repossess the plane, so he was returning it before they could collect....

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let's see....you spent minutes typing almost-infinite "ha"'s and I'M the tool?

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you sanctimonious pile of dog-vomit

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you computer illiterate
mass of cum slurping idiocy

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you smegma-ridden, pus-filled, vacuous, snotty-nosed piece of twaddle!!

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i can't stnad this anymore, and the fact that i'm goin to barbados in 2 weeks on american airlines

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I say the British are behind it

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KeeKee wrote:

American Airlines just upgraded my frequent flyer miles...I threw that shit right in the garbage, you can have 'em if you want 'em

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American Airlines just upgraded my frequent flyer miles...I threw that shit right in the garbage, you can have 'em if you want 'em

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Last I had heard it was 15 year old.Anybody remember the 8 year old trying to go Coast to Coast?She died..Now we have people that want to take off and don't give fucking shit how to land.....

I miss you Babe, and our cousins and neighbor.See ya one day.Kids are doing okay Hon....

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