European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / Page 12 the stars and stripes White House crash wednesday september 14,1994 John Corder brother of the Man who was lulled when he crashed a Small plane onto the White House grounds asks reporters to leave his mothers Home in Aberdeen md., on monday. Drugs delusions and death Frank Corder was tormented relatives say Perry Point my. Apr Frank Corder was a self employed trucker by devised by drugs and alcohol who dreamed of notoriety and according to one report told his brother that crashing a plane into the White House would be a Good Way to commit suicide. With his marriage crumbling his fathers death last year still a tender wound and a jail sentence possibly looming for a probation violation Corder. Went to an unguarded Rural Airport Early monday and stole a single engine Cessna Trainer. With no pilots License no flight plan and Little experience behind the controls Corder managed an incredible breach of Security penetrating restricted airspace and crashing on the White House Lawn Corder 38, a self employed freight truck Driver at Baltimore Washington International Airport was killed leaving authorities to decipher whether he was the victim of a disastrous Joy ride or suicide. On tuesday the Washington Post quoted John Corder As saying his brother had spoken in a phone Call a year ago of a desire to crash a plane into the White House. Quot he said a if in a. Going to Check out that a the Way in a going to do it. In a going to crash a plane into the White  we thought it was a joke a the Post quoted John Corder As saying. The brother refused to confirm the Post report but an administration official who had been briefed on the investigation told the associated press that family members had reported that Frank Corder talked of suicide and had expressed interest in gaining notoriety. The official speaking on condition of anonymity said he did not know whether Corder had talked specifically about crashing into the White House. Secret service spokesman Carl Meyer said Corder May have been trying to land the plane not crash it. John Corder recalled that his brother had been intrigued by the German Mathias rust who was 19 when he landed a plane on Moscow a red Square in 1987. Quot one time he mentioned about the Guy that landed in red Square and How that Guy made a big thing for himself and everything a the brother said. Frank corders relatives agreed that the crash had nothing to do with politics. A the had nothing against the president or anyone a said his aunt Edith  Man. Quot i would love to talk to the president and Tell him that myself. It was the drugs. It was just like the Devil will get hold of you and wont Lef  she said she believes Frank Corder was trying to kill himself Quot because he had been so depressed when his dad  Dishman said Frank Corder May have been living out of his truck after separating from his wife Lydia three weeks ago. The couple had been married 10 years and had no children. Lydia Corder told her husbands probation agent sept. 6 that she was planning to file charges against him for passing bad checks on their joint checking account said Leonard Sipes a spokesman for the Maryland department of safety and corrections. Frank Corder had previous convictions for marijuana Possession and Drunken driving. Frank Corder and his wife had lived in a neatly tended Frame House on the grounds of Perry Point veterans Hospital where she was a practical nurse. Clinton mentioned the Hospital in a speech sunday in Frank cords re a Hometown of Aberdeen md., and the secret service was investigating a possible link Sipes said the Hospital treated Frank Corder for drinking but officials there would give no details. Frank Corder grew up in Aberdeen a town of 13,000 near the army a Aberdeen proving ground. He dropped out in the 10th Grade but eventually earned a general equivalency diploma the equivalent of graduating. He enlisted in the army in october 1974 but received an honorable discharge after Only nine months according to military records. A a. A a a a seems to imitate fiction Washington a to same the crash of an air plane on the White House Lawn May appear similar to the climactic episode from Tom Clancy a latest novel debt of Honor in which there is an attempt to penetrate Washington a restricted airspace and crash a jetliner into the Capitol. All nonmilitary flying is prohibited in Washington in a zone extending from the Lincoln memorial to the Capitol including the White House. Clancy describes a ruse in which an experienced Pilot seeks to fool air traffic controllers by claiming to be flying an International charter Jet with an engine emergency. The Pilot asks to be cleared to land at Baltimore Washington International Airport and then reporting loss of Power requests an emergency Landing at Andrews fab. Md., just outside Washington a Only to Rev the engines and head toward the Capitol at the last minute. Tom Clancy measures have limits experts say Washington a everyone agrees it  have happened. Security should be Good enough to prevent someone from flying a plane onto the White House grounds. But Security experts say there a Only so much that can be done to protect the White House against All contingencies a especially threats such As that posed by the Low flying Cessna 150 that wound up in a pile of tangled Metal alongside the White House Early monday. A a it a very difficult to secure a building that sits in the Middle of a Large City a former secret service official Larry Sheafe told can. A there is no balloon Over the White House. There is no Fence you can build High enough to keep an aircraft out of this particular  the secret service does no to discuss its Protection measures. But Agency sharpshooters Are stationed on the roof during Daylight hours and Security forces have been reported to be equipped with shoulder fired stinger missiles. If so there apparently was no time to reach for those missiles Early monday As the stolen plane piloted by Maryland truck Driver Frank Corder flew Over the White House Fence. The plane continued for several Hundred Yards then slammed into the South Lawn and smashed through a Large Magnolia tree before coming to rest without a single secret service shot being fired at it. The Pilot was killed in the crash. How much time was there Between the secret services discovery that a plane was headed their Way and the Impact a i think time enough to run for cover a Carl Meyer a secret service official said at the White House. A i done to think there was All that much time to be quite honest with  an intensive investigation was quickly begun a and not just by the secret service. The crash simply should not have happened said transportation Secretary Federico Pena. A this is a secure airspace. It is constantly under surveillance a he said. But the plane appeared to Fly at tree top level apparently evading radar authorities said. And it May not have had an operating transponder which is supposed to help air controllers pinpoint the location of All aircraft. Some eyewitnesses suggested that the planets single engine might have been turned off during the approach making it quiet and even harder to detect. A without putting a fighter escort above the White House 24 hours a Day you re going to have this possibility a said a High ranking secret service official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Still he said a any time you have a penetration there a got to be a lot of  another Security expert who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the secret services guard May have been somewhat Down because the first family has been staying in the Blair House a government guest House across the Street during renovations to the White House living quarters