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He stole a 76-seat Bombardier Q400 from Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Two NORAD F-15s scrambled from Portland. He was in contact with Air Traffic Control, apologized to his family. Said he was unwilling to land at a military base because "they would rough me up". Directed out over the Pacific by the fighters, crashed on an uninhabited island in Puget Sound.
A witness claimed he did a loop-de-loop but I didn't see it in his video.
I am completely convinced that suicidal depression can always be cured.
He had all the proper security credentials. He had been working his shift and was believed to still be in uniform. The baggage handler didn't seem out of place at all — until he was taxiing down the runway and taking off in a stolen passenger plane.
Media outlets identified him as Richard Russell, a 27-year-old who sparked a combination of amazement and fear as he flew — alone — a 76-seat Horizon Air Q400 plane for more than an hour before it crashed on a wooded area on Ketron Island south of Seattle.
He did a barrel roll. A daring swoop. Officials said they didn't believe he even had a pilot's license. "Incredible," Horizon Air President and Chief Executive Gary Beck said Saturday.
But investigators are still trying to understand why he decided to take the plane for a what appeared to be joy ride Friday evening from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The act also reignited discussions about airport and aviation security, with Alaska Airlines Chairman and CEO Brad Tilden repeating several times Saturday that passenger and employee safety was — and is — the company's primary concern.
Also at CNN.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @03:28PM (9 children)
Complete nonsense.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @04:07PM (8 children)
Actually, not nonsense at all. If he had been a person of color, or a practitioner of the Muslim faith, he would have been turned into dust. Sadly, that is what America has become.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @04:14PM (1 child)
Are you just making things up, or are you a DNC member?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @10:10PM
DNC folk are living in a different mental reality than the non-DNC folk. It's why all attempts at communication have failed. Further attempts are probably futile.
Thanks to their conditioning, everything IS racism to them. Everything IS oppression. Everything IS fascism. Someone holding open a door is oppression. Birds singing is fascism. The clouds floating in the sky is racism (those damn white clouds are Nazis! Cloud Nazis! That one looks like Hitler!).
There's no point even trying to talk to each other anymore.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 12 2018, @04:38PM (2 children)
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust - it's the most any of us can hope for.
You make it sound like witchcraft or something. "She was a practitioner of the Dark Arts, so the village people hated her as well as the YMCA."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @08:21AM (1 child)
Can you point out an objective difference between religion and witchcraft?
They both claim freaky supernatural shit is real, and neither of them have ever had a shred of hard evidence.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 13 2018, @08:39AM
That could turn into a complicated discussion, real quick. Wicca can be classified as a religion, although it has a lot in common with humanism. Wiccans are more into spiritualism, than magic or religion. But, "witch" has an entirely different connotation - at least when I use it. "Witch" is more in line with evil old crones who study magic for the purpose of manipulating others to their will. And, to most Christians and Muslims, witches are pure evil, who serve Satan.
Maybe it's accurate to say that I don't have a firm definition of witchcraft, as it varies with context. In my post above, I meant it in the context of how Islam views witchcraft, or any other occult experience. It isn't taught by Islam, it doesn't come from Allah, therefore it comes from Satan.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @05:33PM (1 child)
I can give the person of color the benefit of the doubt (am not very white myself), but if an islamic guy steals a plane or a van I'd shoot it down with no remorse and you'd be dumb to do otherwise. There is a war declared by an illegal army, who does not follow the geneva convention nor wears a uniform and use their own as human shield. I happen to be on the other side, so, fuck them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @02:36AM
If you're talking about the Saudi-funded attack on the World Trade Center towers, then why have the Saudis not yet been "liberated?"
Is this another Saudi stunt?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @07:26PM
white's a color, you stupid mind controlled fuck. Islam is not a faith. it's a political and wealth increasing system ripped off from Judaism by a child rapist and used as a bioweapon for white genocide.