bbc.com wrote:Stolen plane closes Seattle-Tacoma airport before crashing
Authorities said the man had made "an unauthorised take-off" late on Friday local time, forcing Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to close.
Two F15 fighter jets pursued the plane, which crashed in Puget Sound. The man is not believed to have survived.
The local sheriff's office said it was "not a terrorist incident", adding that the man was local and aged 29.
Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor later told reporters it appeared to be "a joyride gone terribly wrong", according to ABC7 News, adding "most terrorists don't do loops over the water".
What happened exactly?
The 76-seat, twin-engine turboprop Bombardier Q400, belonging to Alaska Airlines' sister carrier Horizon Air, took off from Seattle-Tacoma at about 20:00 local time (03:00 GMT).
Ben Schaechter was on a plane which was apparently taxiing down the runway as the stolen plane took off.
"Okay this insane," he tweeted. "A pilot on the plane in front of us just went rogue and took off on an empty plane bypassing orders from the tower. The tower ordered a full stop and they're trying to communicate with that pilot. Whaaaaaat!"
Untrained airline employee steals empty passenger plane and crashes (video)
Untrained airline employee steals empty passenger plane and crashes (video)
He was in contact with the Air Traffic controller during his aerial manoeuvres including a 360 degree vertical loop before losing control trying to do a barrel roll after stealing parked passenger plane from a Seattle Airport. He called himself "a broken man". Definitely a broken man now, after the plane crashed into a remote island in a massive fireball.
I’m guessing he was trained enough to fly.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
Maybe, but that hasn't been reported yet and he mentioned (on the radio with the control tower) learning from playing video game airplane simulator-type games during his short-live ill-fated maiden flight. I wouldn't call that "training". He was just a baggage handler and general ground support staff. I think people assume flying an aircraft is much more complicated than it is. It is enormously complicated to do safely on a regular basis and it takes extreme skill and training to land a plane safely anytime but it seems a takeoff isn't all that hard to figure out.YaTingPom wrote:I’m guessing he was trained enough to fly.
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