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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 f-15s chased the plane but were not involved in the crash. so, again, if this is to be believed, the f-15s did not shoot that down that play. let s 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, what you saw. anything you can tell us. well, i was in the plane, about to take off in the time that it was hijacked. in that very plane? i was not in the plane that was hijacked. i was in another plane in the alaska airline industry. and i did not see it take off. but i was told to get out of my plane because if there has been a hijacking. in other words, how long b ....
An aircraft crashed near seattle, washington, after a mechanic stole it from the main airport. the plane went down on ketron island. 40 mild or 65 kilometer thousands, southwest of the airport. the aircraft took off without authorization or passengers. the person at the controls of the plane. this is what we know. that person identified as a 29-year-old horizon air mechanic from pierce county, washington, according to officials who say they are doing background on him. it is believed that the mechanic s lack of flying skills. and in other words he didn t know how to fly the plane well. that s what led to the crash the he knew enough to take off. not enough to land it. the pierce county sheriff says this was not a terrorism related incident. this was a suicide flight. horizon air issued a statement following the crash. here is, horizon air chief ....
From the seattle international airport. and essentially joy rided it, or joy rode it and crashed the plane into ketron island. there was crucially, to understand the story, there was nobody on the plane. and we are also told from, from the pierce county share riff department, that, that, nobody was harmed on impact other than the person who was flying the plane. in other word the mechanic. this was not a terror attempt. it was not a terror incident. not a terrorist story. this was apparently a suicide flight. a former accident investigator. for the federal aviation administration. he joins us on the phone from albuquerque, new mexico. have you ever seen anything like this? no, cyril. thank you for having me. this is this is obviously very unusual. and and i would, caution as to whether or not this was a a legitimate suicide. ....
. welcome back. we are following breaking news this hour. an aircraft has crashed near seattle, washington, after a mechanic toll it from seattle s main airport. the plane went down about 40 miles southwest of the airport. the aircraft took off without authorization and without passengers friday night. the person at the controls of the plane, we only know that person was a 29-year-old horizon air america from washington. he is confirmed to have died in the crash. the sheriff says this was not a terrorism-related incident and initially presented this as a suicide flight. alan deefl is a zoenlt investigator for the national transportation safety board and ....
We don t know. we don t have the identification of the mechanic but we know he was 29 years old. they re checking into his background. the sheriff department tells us this was a suicide flight. we heard that conversation between the control tower and the flight. you also saw the video. you re learning a lot from that. it seems to me the biggest take away at this stage was we were extremely, extremely lucky. well, that s right. extremely lucky and i say, i mean, fortunate that this person well, he said himself, he thought that was going to be it after he did the loop. but very fortunate that there was no one on the ground apparently where the plane eventually crashed. i mean, it s very fortunate in a lot of ways. in some ways, this is the way the system works. we have been open to this vulnerability for so long. there was a lot of discussion about this after september 11, 2001. granted, that s a long time ago. ....