1. After nearly crash-landing onto a Bishop, CA. airport, Michael Dana McEnry told onlookers ‘Can I use the bathroom? I just scared the s—- out of myself.’ The Sacramento Bee details the unlicensed Humboldt pilot’s sentencing to 21 months jail for the January 2009 incident, which occurred under the influence of Oxycontin and pot. McEnry overshot the runway, but ultimately stopped the plane. When he emerged, the 55 year-old man asked, ‘Where am I?’ ‘Told he was in Bishop — an outpost of 3,500 on Highway 395 in Inyo County — he inquired, ‘Where is that in relationship to the rest of the world?’ McEnry told police he “always flies high.” [via Redheaded Blackbelt]
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