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
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chased the plane. So that addresses what Josh Campbell was telling us a second ago. Two f15s chased the plane but were not involved in the crash. So, again, if this is to be believed, the f15s did not shoot that down that play. Lets bring in zack helm. He sat the Seatac Airport right new and joins me on the phone. Zack, i understand you saw this plane while it was airborne . I did not see the plane airborne, but i was this the terminal where it supposedly came out of. Okay. Tell me a little bit what you know, what you saw. Anything you can tell us. Well, i was in the plane, about to take off in the time that it was hijacked. In that very plane . I was not in the plane that was hijacked. I was in another plane in the Alaska Airline industry. And i did not see it take off. But i was told to get out of my plane because if there has been a hijacking. In other words, how long before departure was this . H
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
and turn. i mean, one summer i actually worked the air shows a long, long time ago. they re hard to do. i mean, you can t hop in a plane, a beginning pilot or somebody whose just gotten wait, you re telling me the loop that we re seeing now, that s hard to do? to me that looks like somebody who doesn t know how to fly a plane, who is just hanging on by the skin of his teeth. you re telling me that s a maneuver he may have done on purpose? well, it could be. he is able to do this, he comes out of it in the video i m seeing, he is able to pull it out. yeah, this is daredevil stuff. and fly again. that s yeah, if you re able to do that and keep the plane flying, kit be very difficult. it could also be somebody who just got lucky, doesn t know how to fly. is this plane easy to fly? pardon? is this plane easy to fly? it s a q400. i wouldn t say easy to fly. it s a twin-engine plane. if you ve just got a few hours
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