Maybe the ‘barefoot bandit’ should get more credit. All he wanted to do was go for a joy ride, not destroy airplanes or crash into big box stores. He got into locked hangars and figured out how to start aircraft based on his self-training with MS Flight simulator…
BTW, Didn’t all those aircraft in locked hangars also require a key to get 'em started? I guess a lot of GA pilots must have left their keys in their planes. I dunno about King Air models like the one this article discussed. Does it require a key to start?