N146CS returns to Bangor

US Custom's P3 Orion registered N146CS departed Shannon this afternoon. The aircraft arrived in Shannon just before 8 am yesterday morning on a deportation flight from Harlingen, Texas with Maze prison escapee Pol Brennan. In 1983, Brennan who had been serving a 16 year sentence for possession of explosives and a hand gun had escaped along with 37 IRA prisoners.

Mr. Brennan was deported from the US following his failed attempt to have Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano overturn the 2008 decision of immigration judge William Peterson to have him deported. Judge Peterson had ruled that Brennan be deported since he had a 1995 felony gun conviction, a 2005 misdemeanour assault conviction and he had admitted to activity in the 1970's for the IRA.

Mr. Brennan had been in immigration custody in Texas since Januray 2008 when he has detained at a check point with an expired work permit. It was following this detention that security checks had revealed his history.

N146CS departed Shannon using the callsign N140CS which was also used on the flightplan back to Bangor, Maine. It may well have been a case of 'Biro Trouble' whereby a '6' was transposed as a '0'. Correction would have meant a refiling of the flightplan and subsequent delays.