Why did one pilot land the plane twice right next to New York bars? Detailed answer

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Why did one pilot land the plane twice right next to New York bars?

In 1956, Thomas Fitzpatrick got drunk in a New York bar and bet he could get here from New Jersey in 15 minutes. He went to New Jersey, hijacked a small plane from a flight school, and, without lights or radio, landed neatly in front of a bar. Fitzpatrick got off lightly - he was stripped of his pilot's license and fined only $100 because the owner of the plane did not press charges. This did not stop him from repeating the same thing two years later, when in another establishment the bartender refused to believe in the veracity of the story. To prove it, Fitzpatrick hijacked another plane from the same school and again successfully landed it in New York, but this time the court gave him six months in prison.

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