Jim Oberstar, Iron Range's longtime congressman, dies at 79

[Octafish]

11. Thank you, alp227! Oberstar got the FBI involved in August...

...Of course, FBI Washington didn't want Coleen Rowley and the office in Minneapolis violating the guy's rights (which is weird as it's the only time I can remember the FBI respecting any suspect's rights) and thought it would be OK to just deport the man who wasn't interested in taking off or landing 747s, just in turning them.

One more weird twist, the unnamed flight instructor, Michael Guess, was co-pilot aboard the aircraft that crashed with Paul Wellstone, his wife and their party less than two weeks before the 2002 elections.

FTR: Oberstar endorsed Rowley when she ran for Congress in 2006.

PS: An entire generation will soon come of age that has no clue to any of this, alp227. I imagine jaws would drop when discovering Crisco General John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial in July 2001. For some reason, most all the rest of the flying public was not so warned.