{"id":178819,"date":"2018-08-12T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/12\/i-wasnt-really-planning-on-landing-it\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T23:14:00","slug":"i-wasnt-really-planning-on-landing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/12\/i-wasnt-really-planning-on-landing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wasn&#8217;t Really Planning on Landing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 346px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LeYVtVg6aGs\" width=\"336\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-stolen-plane-crash-20180811-story.html\">stole an aircraft from SeaTac airport and flew aerobatics before crashing it<\/a>.<br \/>All in all, it is a rather flamboyant suicide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">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\u2019t seem out of place at all \u2014 until he was taxiing down the runway and taking off in a stolen passenger plane. <\/p>\n<p>Richard Russell sparked a combination of amazement and fear as he flew \u2014 alone \u2014 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. <\/p>\n<p>He did a barrel roll. A daring swoop. Officials said they didn\u2019t believe he even had a pilot\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Thomson, deputy editor of Canadian investigative environmental news outlet the Narwhal, compiled portions of the air traffic recording. In one clip, the man says he wouldn&#8217;t know how to land the plane. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t really planning on landing it,&#8221; he says.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>F-15s were scrambled to intercept.<\/p>\n<p>This is profoundly weird. <br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man stole an aircraft from SeaTac airport and flew aerobatics before crashing it.All in all, it is a rather flamboyant suicide: 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\u2019t seem out of place at all \u2014 until &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,421],"class_list":["post-178819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}