Airline employee steals plane from Seattle airport, crashes and dies
Nicole Chavez, associate writer CNN Digital
By Nicole Chavez and Tina Burnside, CNN
Updated 7:28 AM ET, Sat August 11, 2018
(CNN)An airline employee stole an otherwise unoccupied passenger plane Friday from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and flew it for an hour with military jets chasing him before crashing in a wooded area 40 miles away.
The 29-year-old ground service agent died, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said, without further identifying him.
The 76-seat Horizon Air turboprop plane took off without authorization around 8 p.m. local time, with an unauthorized Horizon Air employee at the controls, airport officials tweeted.
After flying and doing air stunts for about an hour, the plane crashed at Ketron Island, the sheriff's department said. ...
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