Hijacker Crashes Horizon Air Q400 Turboprop on a Puget Sound Island

Officials in Seattle, Washington settled that a highjacked craft plummeted to a belligerent on a Puget Sound Island on Friday night, Aug. 11, 2018. The pile-up occurred shortly after a unapproved takeoff from a Seattle-Tacoma (SeaTac) International Airport.

After a craft crashed, observers settled they saw a hulk cloud of fume in a atmosphere hovering over Ketron Island. Officials explained no passengers were believed to be aboard a Q400 Aircraft.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department reported they did not know if any inhabitants of a frugally populated on a island were injured.

Authorities primarily settled a hijacker was an unclear suicidal 29-year-old male. He was after identified as Richard Russell, a proprietor of Summer, Washington and an workman of Horizon Air. Russell was not commander and worked for a association 3 years.

The open was means to hear a antagonistic commander communicating with atmosphere trade controllers. Social media users were declare to a play as it unfolded.

The Seattle Post–Intelligencer reported Russell settled that a lot of people cared about him and it will defect them when they hear that he hijacked a plane. He would like to apologize to each one of them. Then he combined that he was only a damaged male with “a few screws loose.”

Russell attempted to make light of his conditions by jokingly saying that if he could land a craft down to a belligerent safely, a airline competence sinecure him as a pilot.

Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor, pronounced that a male did something careless and paid for it with his life. The Sheriff’s dialect pronounced that they are initiating an examination to establish serve how Russell was means to steal a Horizon Air turboprop.

After he took off from SeaTac, troops jets were dispatched to forestall a aircraft, they safely. Russell was drifting erratically and his unapproved moody finished in a crash. The F-14 pilots successfully maneuvered Russell into a airspace above the sparsely populated islands. Officials pronounced that they do not trust that he was a protected pilot.

Authorities serve combined that his ability to grasp a believe to do loops in a craft an hour before he crashed it to his deadly genocide is uncertain. During a news discussion during SeaTac, Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines officials pronounced that they are stability to concur with authorities during a course of a investigation.

Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden settled that reserve is their series one priority. The occurrence has stirred his airline to examination their reserve procedures to establish where their policies unsuccessful to forestall a hijacking to equivocate another incident.

Before crashing a plane, Russell told trade controllers that he did not wish to harm anyone.

By John A. Federico
Edited by Cathy Milne

Sources:

Fox News: Plane crashes after ‘unauthorized take-off’ from SeaTac airport, officials say
CBS Denver: Authorities Probe How ‘Suicidal’ Employee Could Steal Plane
Yahoo News: Airline workman who stole craft told atmosphere trade controllers: ‘I don’t wish to harm no one’

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