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Bearing the brunt of the nasty, possibly racist whispers was the 52-year-old Pakistani-born Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, the son of a Muslim convert to Christianity and a man praised for his intellect. The slurs alleged he had bought his first bishopric, lied about his age, misrepresented his academic qualifications and - horrors - was even once involved with the Catholic Church. None turned out to be true except the last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi...
What's alarming about Bishop's rogue flight is how easily it began: his instructor gave him keys to inspect the Cessna, and the unlicensed pilot took off from St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport while the teacher wasn't looking. Robert Cooper, who owns the National Aviation Flight School, where Bishop took lessons, defends the school's role, saying, "This is not an issue of security. It's an issue of trust...
...what set Bishop off? The boy's mother Julia Bishop insisted through her lawyer that Charles knew nothing of her complicated past or that of his father Charles Bishara, whom officials could not locate but who is believed to be living in Massachusetts. Bishara's father Robert Bishara of Everett, Mass., says he hasn't seen his son in six years, and that the Tampa tragedy was the first news he had heard of his grandson since the 1980s. "I lost my grandson the same day I found him again," he says. The complete suicide note, which...
Police at first tried to describe Bishop as a troubled loner. Yet Favreau said Charles "never complained about his home life," and teachers cast him as a buoyant student who denounced bin Laden in an essay. Favreau notes, however, that Charles dropped out of sight for long periods of time during the last holiday break, telling friends he was working on a "project." He also hinted they should watch the news for something big, reportedly telling his grandmother the day of the crash not to let his enemies attend his funeral. "I gotta think that project was his suicide," says...
...general aviation industry, meanwhile, is circling its Cessnas. Even before the Bishop incident, measures were pending in Congress that would mandate annual psychological tests for the nation's 650,000 licensed pilots; the schools are pushing to tighten only terminal security. Whatever emerges, Bishop's fatal flight may teach aviation schools a new lesson in safety...