Jerome “J.R.” Richard Robbins passed away peacefully August 17, 2022 surrounded by family at the age of 82. Born in Pennington Gap, VA to his parents Lester and…
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August 10, 2018, started like any other at the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, in SeaTac, Washington. At around 1:30 PM, a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 came in for a landing from a flight from Victoria, British Columbia, after which it was to stay on the ground for the day. So far, so normal, but airport personnel and flight control were surprised to see the plane later begin taxiing towards runway 16C. Attempts were made to radio the pilot and get the aircraft to identify itself, but there was no response as the unscheduled flight began to prepare for takeoff. At 7:32 PM, the plane roared down the runway to go tearing up into the sky with landing gear still extended and the wheels smoking, yet air traffic control still had no idea who was flying it or where they were going. And so began a wild goose chase and one of the stranger aviation incidents in recent years.