Frank Eugene Corder Sept 11, 1994 White House Airplane Crash

 Frank Eugene Corder Sept 11, 1994 White House Airplane Crash

http://www.investigatingtheterror.com/articles/A_Brief_History_of_Suicide_Hijackings_Part_II.htm

Someone who may have been inspired by Tom Clancy's book was Frank Eugene Corder.  Corder was an unemployed ex-military man, separated from his wife and a repeated narcotics abuser.  On the evening of September 11th 1994 he stole a Cessna 150 from Aldino airport in Maryland.  After touring around the area for while in much the same manner as Robert K Preston's military helicopter joyride back in 1974, he approached Washington.  He dove down, skidded across the South lawn of the White House, hit a magnolia tree and came to rest against the wall of the building.  Corder died instantly of massive blunt force trama.  The plane was a wreck, the building slightly damaged and the magnolia tree survived with a few scars and a story to tell.