29 holes and guys resume at 9 00 a. M. This morning. Like i said, busy day for tiger. Be out there all day and hopefully the back holds up. Thank you, andy. Okay. This is new day weekend. With Victor Blackwell and christi paul. So glad to have you here. Breaking news overnight. A Regional Airline employee steals an empty plane and takes off and starts doing these aerial maneuvers. This happened just after 8 00 seattle time. Within minutes military jets were right behind him. He flew the plane for an hour and then crash under ed into a area 40 miles from the airport. This is not terrorism. This is not a terroristic incident. Were learning more about the man, though, who apparently stole that plane. The Pierce County sheriffs
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Familiar with that and may even be a pilot himself. Well find that out later. He clearly wasnt of right mind and his flying and where he was going, but he did have command of the aircraft. Clarify that. Because early on the sheriff referred to this man as a mechanic and then we got the clarification that it was a Ground Service agent. Youre saying that he could be both a Ground Service agent and a mechanic. Is that what youre saying . The term Ground Service agent is an airport term that identifies anyone who has access to particular areas. Whether his job was to carry baggage. Whether his job was to be a mechanic. Hes saying anything to do with Ground Service is that category who has access to the aircraft. He has access to the tarmac, he has access to the baggage area and this is one of our most vulnerable areas, as with all airports across the country right now is these Ground Service agent passes. Got it. Colonel leighton, do we know what kind of Mental Health checks are done on, i mean, we know that pilots are certainly heavily scrutinized. Youre in the military, the flights that followed him, the f15s. They go through rigorous testing. What about these Ground Agents . Are there protocols to change that and make it more rigorous for everybody working at the parp airport . I am trying to understand, how on earth can a man like this, in this position, get access to that and do what he did. Absolutely, christi. The problem is there are no protocol for people like Ground Service agents or most mechanics to have real thorough Background Checks. Theyre not going to have the same kind of Background Checks that pilots go through and you mentioned the military. Of course, Military Pilots have
process when a person applies for a job. Again, that suspect believed to be the only person on the plane, which crashed in that wooded area on ketron island. Authorities are all on the scene and investigations will begin. We appreciate you both so much. Thank you for being here. Theyre going to stick with us here as we have more to discuss, of course. We also have more to listen to with you here. The audio from inside the cockpit of that plane where this man talked about what he was trying to do. Trying to do a barrel roll and if that goes good, im going to nose down and call it a night. John waldron was taking a walk when he looked up and saw the planes. He recorded that video and we spoke with him last hour and he said he knew something was wrong. Out of no where, the guy that was flying this q400 just pulled the stick back and put this
thing into a complete loop and i honestly thought he was going to stall and hit the water. He headed down to where he eventually crashed at and pulled the nose back up, again. I thought he was going to stall, again. And he made his way down and i looked, again, he was in a nose dive and went straight into the ground. I saw a brief flash of flame and then smoke and then the explosion. I just had a bad feeling. Well continue to follow this for you this afternoon and this morning. Listen, its been a year since white nationalists and counterprotesters fought on the streets of charlottesville. Some people say, listen, this country hasnt had a moment of healing when it comes to race and hatred. Where we are a year later and where were going. Look at this. Entire neighborhoods destroyed in california. The state is in the middle of a recordbreaking fire season. Well have more details on how these monstrous fires are racing through these communities and they dont seem to be letting up just yet. You do not want to run into the november elections. So, back up from that, this should be over with by september 1st. Thats president trumps attorney Rudy Giuliani cohosting a radio show with another attorney for the president saying the Mueller Investigation should be wrapped up in the next few weeks. More as the first major test of the special investigation continues. This is the ocean. Just listen. vo theres so much we want to show her. We needed a car that would last long enough to see it all. avo subaru outback. 98 are still on the road after 10 years. Come on mom, lets go avo right now, get 0 apr financing
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thing. You know, i struggled a lot in my life. I was a single mom with two kids. My parents provided for me. I have, you know, i was not struggling as a child. My grandparents were cominers and farmers and i live in a single wide trailer. I get that demographic and i get the mindset. But, its not mandatory that you think a certain way just because you live a certain way. You have the ability to still think for yourself. I often say, dont drink the co koolaid. Be aware of the fact that you dont have to believe the way you were brought up to believe. Susan, by the way, is expected to visit the cemetery where her daughter is buried tomorrow and also to lay some flowers where she died. Were getting more of the
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that, but, first, let me read. This is the white house statement just released. And im going to read it for you here. The president has been briefed on the incident involving a stolen plane from Seatac Airport in seattle and is monitoring the situation as information becomes available. Federal authorities are assisting with the ongoing investigation, which is being led by local authorities. We commend theinter Agency Response effort for their swift action and response. That from press secretary sarah sanders. Colonel cedric leighton. Your reaction there, colonel, to what you heard from the white house and what happens next in this investigation. Christi, i think the white house made the right statement in this case. And what we have here is a test of the system that we have for
air defense in this country. And the fact that the f15s from The 142nd Fighter Wing at portland, oregon, International Guard unit came so quickly shows that at least that part of the system is working. And, of course, well have to find out exactly what the motivations were. You know, was this just solely a Mental Health issue . As far as the future of the investigation is concerned, i would say that the hope of the pilot, the person who stole the plane in this case is something that is of paramount concern. Make sure there are no connections to anything else. There are, after all, five Different Military installations, Major Military installations in the seattletacoma area. Makes any activity of this type part of a broader look and the investigations have to include a look at motivations and a look
at connections and a look at the kind of things that may have spurred this kind of activity. But, you know, so far i agree with the local sheriff who said that there is no Terrorist Activity indicated at the present time. David, to you on the phone, lets talk more about this investigation. We know that the colonel has just outlined the questions that these investigators want answered. Tell us practically what that looks like at the airport there in the hangar and who are they speaking with . What are the questions theyre asking. What evidence could they potentially get their hands on right now after their plane has crashed and burned that could give them some of those answers . The first thing theyre looking at is that there is a protocol to not allow anyone to singularly get on board and it is something that is practiced and its like when you have a Security Badge and you go through the door, youre supposed to close the door behind you and make sure no one comes behind you until they use their badge to come through. That is very similar to this
process in which if you are going to access the aircraft that you check with someone else and that someone else is confirmed and that you have your badge with you and the right authority to get on that aircraft. Step one, to figure out why in the world that happened and why someone Wasnt Paying Attention to allow someone to gosingulary on that aircraft. Step number two is how do they res have those processes. And every airport in the country is going to be looking at at after this incident. So sad to listen to what we just listened to Colonel Leighton the pilot saying maybe i have a screw loose and feeling so much defeat in his voice. Help us understand how you would normally try to negotiate or talk to someone like that when theyre in that state. Thats a very difficult situation and it varies by each
individual case and, you know, the parameters of the situation that youre in at the time, christi. But in this way, you know, in a situation like this, what you end up doing is you end up trying to reason with the person, which can be a very difficult thing to do because theyre, obviously, looking at life from a very depressed point of view. Theyre not looking at things in a very positive way at all. Sometimes what you try to do is you try to give people the idea that there is something to live for. There is something that they can actually seek in their way of doing things that will mack their lives better. But, you know, at this point, act like this is an act of desperation and in some ways its almost impossible to talk someone down successfully from Something Like this. What were lucky with in this particular case is the fact that he appears not to have hit any populated areas. That there is nothing that he
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