Surveillance shows how Horizon employee stole plane from SeaTac

KOIN 6 ^ | Jul 6, 2022

[SimpleJack]

Fascinating video of events leading up to Russell stealing a plane and going for a joy ride before crashing it into a small island in Puget Sound.

[SaveFerris]

He got in.

Started it up.

Took off.

[SaveFerris]

You’re in a Johnny Cab.

[HighSierra5]

Airplanes are easy to take off but not so easy landing.

[DesertRhino]

The sky king! He had a wonderful sense of humor. Realistically, he woulda wound up in some sort of mental health situation and been out in less than 10 years.
Sad that he ended it all.

[dljordan]

“He got in. Started it up. Took off.”

It’s a tad bit more complicated than that.

[SaveFerris]

He had moved aircraft before.

[dljordan]

I used to start Cessnas with a Craftsman tool box key.

[SaveFerris]

Or should I say, started aircraft before.

Yes he knew how to get it to takeoff config.

[Born in 1950]

I liked Penny.

[Vaquero]

I’ve taken of a few times in friends planes. I refused to try to land. Landing is hard.

[SaveFerris]

You packed a parachute?

Just kidding. 😜

[wrench]

I used to have a keyring with 8 keys on it. I could start 90 percent of single engine GA aircraft with 7 of them, the other key opened commercial aircraft cockpit doors.

[Kartographer]

I don’t know about that there’s only two kinds of landings those you walk away from and those you don’t and as a novice he manage to make one out of the two.

[seowulf]

I heard about 15 minutes of the conversation he had with air traffic control on the local radio station last night.

He was crazy, he knew he was crazy and said so, but he also didn’t want to hurt anybody.

He just wanted to suicide and go out with a thrill.

[jonrick46]

I have been on Ketron Island many times, visiting my uncle and aunt. We would go to the beach to pick up oysters and heat them on rocks heated by a fire. Steamed clams in sea water were a treat, dipped in butter. Ketron is accessible only by ferry. That fire started by Russell crashing the plane could have burnt out the entire island. Those 20 or so people who had homes there would have lost an island paradise.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Crashing and dying does not make the definition of “successful”.

[nwrep]

do you have the link for it? I want to hear it all. The small clip on the youtube video above is something else, and this guy was funny. Thanks.

[seowulf]

It the July 9 broadcast. It looks like that podcast is not up yet.

https://www.northwestphenomenon.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u-s-phenomenon/id1500682243

[dljordan]

“I used to have a keyring with 8 keys on it. I could start 90 percent of single engine GA aircraft with 7 of them, the other key opened commercial aircraft cockpit doors.”

:)