{"id":359813,"date":"2026-02-01T05:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/transponder-tampering-couple-stolen-aircraft-dark-meth\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:05:17","slug":"transponder-tampering-couple-flies-stolen-aircraft-dark-while-high-on-meth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=359813","title":{"rendered":"Transponder Tampering: Couple Flies Stolen Aircraft &#8220;Dark&#8221; While High On Meth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal investigators in the United States have alleged that a man from Pomona, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"184132\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetravel.com\/state\/california\/\"  >California<\/a><\/span>, stole a single-engine aircraft from Auburn Municipal Airport in Washington on January 3, 2026, according to a federal complaint. He then allegedly flew the aircraft south while manipulating the plane&#8217;s transponder, making it extremely challenging to track this flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This practice can be both dangerous and illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,23,629,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-california","category-pilots","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359814,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359813\/revisions\/359814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}