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NATION 'This is probably jail time for life,' airline worker says before crashing empty Alaska Airlines plane near Seattle
| according to airline and law enforcement officials. Horizon Air is a subsidiary company that operates Alaska Airlines aircraft.
The man was described as suicidal, and it appeared impossible that he could have survived the crash. Authorities said there was no indication that the crash was a terrorist incident.
| The plane made an unauthorized takeoff from the airport around 8 p.m. and crashed on Ketron Island, about five miles southwest of Tacoma, after the renegade pilot bantered erratically with air-traffic controllers who pleaded with him to land the plane, according to officials and dispatch audio.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-stolen-plane-20180810-story.html#
| https://www.geekwire.com/2018/stolen-plane-forced-f-15s-south-seattle-seatac-airport-temporarily-grounded-amid-security-threat/
He basically had some casual conversations with air traffic control and the F15 pilots who tried to get him to land. He briefly joked about things like minimum wage and problems in his life, and did some aerial stunts before finally crashing himself.
| Damn.
| what a hero
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| An airline worker stole an empty Alaska Airlines plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington on Friday night, and the National Guard scrambled two fighter jets to chase the aircraft, which crashed on a sparsely populated island in Puget Sound, officials said.
No passengers were aboard the 76-seat Horizon Air Q400 turboprop plane, which was stolen by a 29-year-old Horizon Air ground service agent from Pierce County,