i heard that. okay. so the control tower, first of all, cool, calm, collected. very calm. that tone of voice as they re speaking to, the captain, they re certainly not berating him. not threating him. at least not in that 16-second clip that we got and played you. they are just trying to assuage him and say, let s land this, okay, let s do this safely. what we heard was somebody who appears, appears, to be just enjoying the thrill of this. yep. right. just the thrill of it. obviously very, not, obviously, it sounded to me like he was proud of himself that he was able to do a loop. which is an air show maneuver. by the way, planes that do that, arobatic planes that do that. had some of that, at the university where i taught, those are planes especially made to do the kind of maneuvers. this is a, this plane, a q 400 is a remake of something called
after the plane took off and took off from the airport, witnesses saw it flying erratically. tell us what did you see when this airplane was up in the air? my wife and i were in the back alley. we live in eatonville, about 60 miles south of seattle. my wife looked at me. s she knew about the airplane, what s up with that. i said that s a q 400. that should not even be in this area at all. and she started shooting video. i said get video. there s possibly 75 people or more on the plane. we have a small municipal airport in town, not big enough for one of those planes. so it was literally like 300 feet off the ground. and heading south, straight in
clearly it was also a bizarre suicide, which happened last night at 8:00. when an airline employee stole a 76 seat passenger aircraft and flew it around the pe piewjt sound. the video is absolutely stunning and amazing when you look at it. shows the q-400 turbo prop doing loops and flying low to the ground. the military quickly sent up two f-15 fighter jets to follow that plane. those planes came out of portland and up here in minutes. the man who stole the plane worked for horizon air as a ground service agent. definitely not a pilot. he joked with the air traffic control agents about his flying skills even though he was not a pilot, clearly. he also made it clear he was suicidal. i don t want to hurt no one. i just want you to whisper sweet nothings into my ear. i have a lot of people that
the q 400 is pressurized because it flies up to 25,000 feet but he s not that high so i think it s a higher likelihood that just the sensory overload and the adrenaline that he would have been experiencing, that may have accounted for his comment about the light headedness. quite an amazing night there. thank you so much for joining us this morning. an hour s long delay in the paul manafort trial. what was behind it and whether this is unusual. sfx: [cell phone dialing]
else another employee won t challenge me. so i think there were some planning that went into it in advance. and john, as a ground control employee, would he have been able to be watching pilots or have any exposure to pilots to know how to turn on this plane and get it moving? i guess that s possible. if he was looking very carefully, but he would not be authorized to ride on the jump seat or anything like that, so he may have been able to watch if he knew somebody that was a private pilot fly a smaller aircraft but that wouldn t have given him the specific knowledge of how to start a q 400. and john, i do want to ask you, is there anything that could have prevented this? well, we don t know yet. the investigation is just getting started and they re going to look very carefully at if there was a breach of any of the security processes and procedures, but as an employee of the airline he has been