Guy Steals A Plane

[orbitup]

It sounds like they cut out the audio at the end.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Sad.

 

[easy rider]

I'm not a pilot, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express.

 

[easy rider]

Seriously though, I think he was messing with them and had no intentions of landing.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

He did not.

 

[Big Dipper]

But at least the Terribly Stupid Agents were able to confiscate 5 pairs of scissors, 3 nail files and 2 pen knives at SeaTac today. Thus we should feel safe!

 

[busykngt]

One less nut mixing it up in society. Too bad he took out a nice plane with him.

 

[C_Hallbert]

Seriously though, I think he was messing with them and had no intentions of landing.

Exactly right.....


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[SloppyShooter]

On "Funny you should ask," one of the true/false questions was the TSA missed 70% of weapons in a test run.

The comic said" On the upside, they were 100% on bottled water. " BTW: That question was true.

 

[sharkey]

I blame the pilot for leaving the keys in the plane.
Psst, security is an illusion

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[orbitup]

Here is some more footage of him flying.

 

[easy rider]

Here is some more footage of him flying.

So he didn't crash into the Puget Sound as I first heard.

 

[Darkpriest667]

The other pilots and the air traffic control person need to be commended for their calmness and professionalism.

 

[AustinN4]

So he didn't crash into the Puget Sound as I first heard.

"(CNN)Relatives of Richard Russell say they are "stunned and heartbroken" after the airline worker stole a passenger plane Friday from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and was killed when he crashed 25 miles away."

" The plane eventually crashed on sparsely populated Ketron Island, starting a fire in the woods but injuring no one outside the plane. The fuselage was fragmented and appeared to be upside down, said Debra Eckrote, regional chief for the National Transportation Safety Board."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/11/us/plane-crash-unauthorized-takeoff/index.html

 

[DD130]

Pretty crazy story. That split S looked pretty tight.

 

[majormadmax]

Airline and Seattle airport officials revealed the following at a news conference Saturday:

-- Russell was credentialed to be in secure areas at the airport, said Brad Tilden, CEO of Alaska Air Group, which owns Horizon Air.

-- He passed a series of background checks to gain his position, as he didn't have any criminal convictions.

-- Airline officials believe he was in uniform and worked a shift Friday, Tilden said.

-- The plane had been parked in a maintenance area and was not scheduled for a passenger flight, Tilden said.

-- He had no purpose to be at that plane Friday evening "other than ... what he did do," Tilden said.

-- Besides his other duties, he was qualified to tow aircraft, said Gary Beck, Horizon Air's president and chief executive officer.

-- Officials don't believe Russell had a pilot's license, and they don't know how he knew to fly the plane.

 

[vmax]

Can this thing do a barrel roll?

 

[Dad_Roman]

Absolutely. Fully aerobatic to positive G's. Most passenger planes are (within reason)....now negative G maneuvers, not so much.

 

[MTA]

Here is some more footage of him flying.

That loop was insane

 

[majormadmax]