Disappoint them to hear that i did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose, i guess. Never really knew it until now. Think about landing this successfully, will alaska give me a job as a pilot . I think theyll give you a Job Doing Anything if you can pull this off. Yeah, right. If you wanted to land, probably the best bet is that runway just ahead to your left. Thats the mccord field. If you wanted to try, that might be the best way to see if you could land there. Or just like the pilot suggested, another option would be over puget sound into the water. Dang, you talk to mccord yet . Because i dont think id be happy with you telling me i could land like that. The ground and dealing with more of a Brush Fire Type of incident, as you know, its been in the washington and seattle area. Theyre dealing with these type of fires quite a bit lately. So how difficult was it to get to the scene . We know this was a heavily wooded ar
otezla. show more of you. we turn next tonight to the passenger plane stolen at sea-tac airport. tonight, we ve now learned how that airport worker towed the plane out and then flew it, taking off right from the runway. authorities taking questions today, and abc s clayton sandell is in seattle. reporter: a stunt-filled, suicidal joyride oh, my god! oh, my god, is he okay? reporter: tonight raising big questions about airport security. friday night, investigators say horizon air ground employee richard russell tows an empty turboprop out of parking, starts the engines and barges onto a runway. this is probably jail time for life, huh? reporter: f-15 fighters race to intercept. but 75 minutes after takeoff, a fiery crash. russell passed background checks for his job, but told air traffic controllers he d snapped. just a broken guy. i got a few screws loose, i guess.
crash. first, the puget sound region saw the low flying stolen plane. then the scrambled f-15s. but then we heard him, horizon air ground service agent richard russell, age 29. hey, can this do a back flip, do you think? maybe try a barrel roll and if that goes good, i ll go nose down and call it a night. no, let s try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anybody on the ground. all right. i don t know, man. i don t know. i don t want to. i was kind of hoping that was going to be it, you know. a troubled man who cleared background checks, and worked in a secured area of seattle s airport for three and a half years. hi, i m bebo russell and i m a ground service agent. a job he appeared to love in this video post. married to his college sweetheart, he posted pictures of their travel, a social media
horizon air ground service agent departed in a horizon air q400 without clearance from sea tac international airport. the plane taken from a maintenance position and was not scheduled for passenger flight. the aircraft crashed about an hour later in a wooded area on ketron island in rural pierce county. no ground structures were involved at the crash site. military jets were scrambled from portland but it does not appear the jets were involved in the crash of the horizon aircraft. and i really want to emphasize that we appreciate the military s professionalism. we re working closely with the authorities and our own safety teams to thoroughly understand this incident and now i ll turn it over to mike. thank you, mr. beck and good