Sorry for your trouble Mike, but thanks for the laugh. This has to be one
of the best Rec.Aviation stories I've ever heard.

Jim

"Mike Adams" wrote in message
news:s4lTg.15970$nm1.10571@fed1read04...
We had an incident a few days ago at my home airport with a couple in a
Cessna 182 that never showed
up after a local flight. It still hasn't been determined whether the
flight ran into difficulty or where they
went. The story was on the news last night and as we're watching the TV
coverage, my wife says, "hey
that's our airplane". Sure enough, the TV story was using a picture of MY
airplane. I recognized the
picture and knew it was on the Rogue's gallery website. The original story
just showed the picture as an
example of a typical Cessna 182, and in fact the story reported the tail
number of the actual subject
aircraft. But then in a later news story last night, the newscaster
clearly referred to my picture as THE
aircraft involved in this incident.

I emailed the TV station and they pulled the picture off their website,
but said "you might want to check
with the Phoenix police department. They issued a missing persons bulletin
with this picture on it." Great,
now my airplane is a fugitive from justice! So, I called the police dept,
and the detective got back to me
right away and said they had just done a search for a 182 similar to the
description, but should have
obscured the tail number before publishing it. Well, they immediately
updated their bulletin to obscure the
tail number, but as he told me, "there could be some of these posters
already printed." Great - maybe I
won't go to Sedona tomorrow! I can just see some Barney Fife-type
impounding my airplane, "We got a
bulletin says the Phoenix PD is looking for this airplane".

http://www.phoenix.gov/police/missin...r_westover.pdf
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rogue's_gallery_a-h.htm

It is a good picture if I do say so myself - good Arizona scenery, perfect
for television! Jay, do you have
any copyright disclaimers on the website?

Mike