Utah Teens Steal Plane From An Airstrip And Take It For a Joyride
A pair of teenagers had a wild Thanksgiving after stealing and driving a tractor to a local airstrip, where they nabbed an airplane, took it for a joyride and then landed safely back at the small airport in Vernal, Utah. Local paper the Salt Lake Tribune reports that the boys were spotted flying in the air along a highway before they aborted their flight and landed about 15 miles away.
The two boys, ages 14 and 15, had been staying at the Split Mountain Youth Detention Center in Vernal when they left to stay with friends in nearby Jensen. On Thanksgiving, the pair took a tractor and drove it to a private airstrip. There, they took a fixed-wing single-engine Cessna and took to the skies, flying along US-40 for 15 miles toward the Colorado state line.
Witnesses on the ground spotted the plane and alerted authorities.
