Pilots Ferry Millions in Cashed Checks Nightly.

Thomas F. Lennon, who died Friday when his turboprop plane crashed into an Anne Arundel County neighborhood, was hauling checks on 25 minute flights back and forth from Baltimore to Philadelphia. Lennon, one of 11 cargo pilots working for Atlanta-based Epps Aviation, was on the sixth and final leg that was to end at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, the company said. The Federal Reserve Bank, which contracted the plane, uses specialized, private air services to move about 15 million checks a night on solitary, overnight flights, said reserve spokesman Pierce Nelson. The checks move from one Federal Reserve processing facility to another. Full Story.