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A Q400 used in the incident pictured in 2015
On August 10, 2018, a
Horizon Air
Bombardier Dash 8 Q400
was stolen from
Seattle?Tacoma International Airport
("Sea?Tac") in
SeaTac, Washington
.
The man responsible was 29-year-old Richard Russell. He was a Horizon Air ground service operator with no
piloting
experience.
[1]
Russell performed an unauthorized takeoff and flew southward as
F-15 fighter jets
were scrambled to take down the plane. Sea?Tac
air traffic control
made radio contact with Russell. He was killed when the plane crashed on sparsely populated
Ketron Island
in
Puget Sound
.
[2]