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One year later, teen's mother, friend haunted by plane crash death
Associated Press
January 06, 2003, Monday
One year after 15-year-old Charles Bishop crashed a stolen airplane into a Tampa skyscraper, his mother and best friend said they are still haunted by death and struggling with the public attention it has drawn. Julia Bishop, who has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the maker of the acne medication Accutane that her son was taking before the crash, has made few public statements since her son's death Jan. 5, 2002.
``This is a news story for the rest of the world,'' she told the St. Petersburg Times in a story for Sunday's edition. ``But for me, he was my life and my son and it's extremely difficult to have this thrown into my face all the time.''
Bishop is limited in what she can talk about because of the lawsuit, which contends Accutane caused the boy to develop severe psychosis and led him to commit suicide. A trial is set for March 2004 in U.S. District Court in Tampa.
Julia Bishop remembers her son, a high school freshman who dreamed of becoming an Air Force Pilot, excitedly talking about an upcoming trip to Australia and New Zealand as a student ambassador.
Days later, he left a two-page note, expressing sympathy for Osama bin Laden and supporting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He also claimed he had resisted recruiting attempts by al-Qaida terrorists.
``When you see a pattern and then suddenly for somebody to snap and think they are working for Osama bin Laden ... I'm sure you've seen the note,'' Julia Bishop said. ``That's really sick.''
Julia Bishop said she meets about once a month with her son's best friend, Emerson Favreau, who says he still feels guilty he didn't notice any suicide warning signs in his friend.
Two days before the crash, Charles sent Favreau an e-mail saying he was going to be on the news. Charles ended the online conversation by saying: ``See you Monday.''
``That's what made me mad,'' Favreau said. ``Because he knew he wasn't going to see me on Monday.''
Favreau has re-created his friend's final flight along Tampa's skyline on an airplane computer simulator.
``I was trying to figure out maybe if there was something going on,'' Favreau said. ``I still couldn't believe that he did it on purpose.''
Emerson said he was finally convinced by a federal report in November that said Bishop flew dangerously close to the MacDill Air Force Base control tower before crashing into the 42-story Bank of America Plaza in downtown Tampa.
``Before, there was nothing concrete that he had done it on purpose,'' Favreau said. ``But you can't accidentally (buzz a control tower) with a Cessna.''
Now a junior at East Lake High School, Favreau said students don't talk much about Charles Bishop anymore, but that he is still haunted by the suicide.
``It's just something that you can't get off your head,'' Favreau said.
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