Richard Russell was a jokester who complained about work, but Sea-Tac plane heist still baffles friends
A week after Richard Russell stole a Horizon plane from Sea-Tac Airport and crashed it on Ketron Island, there are few hints about why he...
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‘Video games’? Pilots wonder how plane thief learned to do aerial acrobatics
Aviation instructors, pilots and safety experts suspect that Richard Russell had some sort of training, whether from a flight-simulator game or some form of lessons.
Sea-Tac Airport’s security challenge: 12,600 people have access to aircraft WATCH
Horizon Air employee Richard Russell took off in an empty plane Friday night, flew around for more than an hour, then crashed on an island...
Sea-Tac officials, airlines to meet Monday to discuss security protocols after turboprop heist WATCH
In the wake of Friday's security incident, airport and airline officials will meet to discuss whether any policies need to change. One expert says it's...
Here’s how the Horizon Air theft and crash unfolded WATCH
Eyewitnesses, Sea-Tac passengers, airport audio and other accounts create a detailed look at the chaos that unfolded as a Horizon Air employee stole a plane...
Sea-Tac air traffic controller faced ‘one in a million’ scenario with stolen plane
Negotiating with a ground-crew member flying upside down above Puget Sound is normally not part of the job description. Yet that was the scenario Friday...
Stolen Horizon Air plane ‘a serious breach,’ raises questions about airport security WATCH
Richard Russell, a Horizon Air ground-crew member, underwent criminal background checks to get hired and was fully credentialed to be in the area where he...
Man who took plane from Sea-Tac Airport was quiet, well liked, says former co-worker
Richard Russell was "a quiet guy. It seemed like he was well liked by the other workers," said Rick Christenson, an operational supervisor with Horizon...
How it unfolded: Full coverage of the Horizon Air crash and the man who stole the plane from Sea-Tac WATCH
Here’s the latest on the Horizon Q400 that made an unauthorized takeoff from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday night and crashed in south Puget Sound.
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