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Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chased the plane. So that addresses what Josh Campbell was telling us a second ago. Two f15s chased the plane but were not involved in the crash. So, again, if this is to be believed, the f15s did not shoot that down that play. Lets bring in zack helm. He sat the Seatac Airport right new and joins me on the phone. Zack, i understand you saw this plane while it was airborne . I did not see the plane airborne, but i was this the terminal where it supposedly came out of. Okay. Tell me a little bit what you know...

Captain, usually they're pretty coy about what they say to the passengers. >> right. i think he said that because he was trying to get us safely off the plane so nothing happened while we were land. >> all right. so he told you. i just want to double-check with this. he told you an employee had hijacked a plane and was in the air, and that's why everybody had to get out? >> yes. >> what happened after that? >> we all got off the plane into the terminal, like every other airline, or alaska airlines flight and we waited in the terminal. >> so at this point i'm assuming that the terminal is start...

Can take airplanes up. >> if you have lack of skill and you don't know how to fly a plane and you steal a plane, that's what many see as a suicide flight because you're not going to land it. >> that's a good possibility, but we don't know what he was thinking and doing. i would be more concerned about his intent. and again, it would have been suicide. but i think the public safety issue is the biggest concern of anyone right now. what was his intent when he took that airport. it wasn't just for a joy flight, that's for sure. if there is suicide, there is other ways to go. >> what do you mean b...

>> in other words, how long before departure was this? how long before your flight was supposed to take off? >> we were all boarded and we were about to go on to the runway. we had gotten all the luggage, everyone had been boarded we had been seated, the instructional video had been done, and we were ready to go. and then the news came to us. i in other words, minutes before you guys were going to be airborne. >> correct. >> minutes before they got all the passengers off your airplane. >> correct. >> did they tell you why? >> yes. they were saying an employee had stolen the plane, had attempte...