Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Investigators will be trying to figure out the motive based on what they have seen so far. The fbi says they do not believe this was a Terrorist Threat and they do not believe theres any additional criminal activity associated with this. Another major issue, authorities will surely look at is security access, the fact that could happen at all. All entities will do what they call a hot watch, they will review incident and look at all of the things happened and look for the holes and why employee had access to aircraft and try to determine where it was broken down and with that theyll be able to strengthen the system. Former dhs officials spoken to fox news today say at this Point Mental Health seems to be the primary issue when it comes to this situation. The challenge on this particular case as
investigators will be trying to figure out the motive based on what they have seen so far. the fbi says they do not believe this was a terrorist threat and they do not believe there s any additional criminal activity associated with this. another major issue, authorities will surely look at is security access, the fact that could happen at all. all entities will do what they call a hot watch, they will review incident and look at all of the things happened and look for the holes and why employee had access to aircraft and try to determine where it was broken down and with that they ll be able to strengthen the system. former dhs officials spoken to fox news today say at this point mental health seems to be the primary issue when it comes to this situation. the challenge on this particular case as ntsb begins the investigation is sort of a
clearance from cpac international airport, the plane was taken from position and not scheduled for passenger flight. the aircraft crashed about an hour later in a wooded area on catron island in rural peters county. no structures were involved at crash site. military jets were scrambled from portland but 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 are working closely with the authorities and our own safety teams to thoroughly understand this incident. now i will turn it over to mike. thank you, mr. beck and good morning, international airport wants to ensure that we are
can you talk about was he alone [inaudible] i think at this time we believe he was the only one in aircraft but, of course, we haven t confirmed that at the crash site if that s your question and in terms of the access that ll best be answered by somebody else. [inaudible] history, employee of the airline, if he has history of problems? we we do realize that there s some information flowing out there, we are not confirming the identity of individual at this time. it was 3 and a half year employee and ground service agent for horizon air. to answer the question that you asked, he was background check, there was a couple of different criminal background check we run on our employees, he worked his
mike: fox news alert now officials in seattle giving update following an airline employee steeling and empty passenger jet, taking on joyride last night, let s go to seattle right now. 27-year veteran of alaska airlines, gary is president and ceo of horizon air joined airline in january of this year and previously served as vice president of operations at alaska airlines for about 6 years. with that, i will turn it over to brad. thank you bobby and good morning, everyone, all of us in alaska horizon are deeply saddened by last night s unauthorized flight with the horizon q400 aircraft that resulted in loss of life for the individual involved.