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U.S. airline worker steals plane, takes it for flight before crashing it
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Posted on 08/11/2018 5:14:47 AM PDT by Java4Jay

An Horizon Air ground service agent took the controls of a Bombardier Q400 turboprop airplane in a maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at about 8 p.m. local time Friday and took off, embarking on flight over Seattle before crashing about an one hour later on Ketron Island in Puget Sound, Horizon sister carrier Alaska Airline said online.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: planecrash; qanon
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To: Java4Jay

American kamikaze!


21 posted on 08/11/2018 9:05:23 AM PDT by Eternal_Bear (AND)
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To: Java4Jay

I take it they haven’t released this guy’s name yet?


22 posted on 08/11/2018 10:07:34 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

As an employee he would have access to the airplane. This not a TSA or security issue. Think of a maintenance worker for a trucking company stealing a truck.


23 posted on 08/11/2018 10:25:15 AM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: ops33

Early 2000s, I heard on DW’s shortwave broadcast about a guy that stole a general aviation craft, and flew around the Frankfurt airport, rendering it useless, until he ran low on fuel, and “...landed safely, and was taken into custody without incident. He is believed to have emotional issues.”


24 posted on 08/11/2018 10:36:58 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Java4Jay

Do you think anyone is going to focus attention to this part of the conversation:


Rich: Hey do you think if I land this successfully Alaska will give me a job as a pilot?

Air traffic control: You know, I think they would give you a job doing anything if you could pull this off.

Rich: Yeah right! Nah, I’m a white guy


Is this the inevitable result of the constant white bashing by leftists? Are white people becoming despondent because of horrible leftist propaganda and are starting to feel hopeless?

I think so.

JoMa


25 posted on 08/11/2018 10:43:04 AM PDT by joma89
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To: mass55th

I take it they haven’t released this guy’s name yet.
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I’m waiting for that, too. Since he was employee, surely they know it.


26 posted on 08/11/2018 10:46:38 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: Balding_Eagle
sort of rules out he has a first name Mohammad.

Recent convert? Maybe his imam told him before he could take a new name he needed practice...

27 posted on 08/11/2018 10:49:11 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: Java4Jay

I wonder if he was recently diagnosed with something terminal. Seems like a bucket list thing to do. Always wanted to fly that plane, not going to die in jail and dying anyway so might as well have some fun on the way out. Better have a few drinks to get up the nerve.


28 posted on 08/11/2018 11:12:42 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: KittyKares
"I’m waiting for that, too. Since he was employee, surely they know it."

Makes you wonder why they're dragging their heels.

29 posted on 08/11/2018 11:45:45 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: KittyKares

Oh wait...just realized. The FBI is running the investigation. Dragging their heels is what they do.


30 posted on 08/11/2018 11:46:41 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: UCANSEE2
And just like the 911 terrorists, he didn't bother to learn how to LAND the plane.

But he had just enough skill to get to the scene of the crash.

31 posted on 08/11/2018 11:58:31 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: mass55th

Well, we have to understand that they may have something that needs to be covered up.


32 posted on 08/11/2018 2:38:00 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: joma89
Do you think anyone is going to focus attention to this part of the conversation:

If anyone would, Mark Steyn might if it's still a news item in the coming week.

The guy sounded despondent but hiding it well in the bit I heard. He said there were people out there who cared about him and that he was about to let them down, but he sounded like he was determined to bring about the end he had planned on.

It was a reckless and ultimately selfish thing to do. For his sake, I wish he'd just said "no, not today" to whatever demon was gnawing at him.

33 posted on 08/11/2018 6:33:22 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

If he could do those loops and other maneuvers in that plane...he could’ve landed it! Believe he wanted to be a pilot...may have had his license, but was prevented from doing so because of his color and the companies policy of female or people of color only only...or he was just F’d up!


34 posted on 08/12/2018 3:50:44 PM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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