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, 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 before departure was this . H
alaska airlines. we ve confirmed a horizon air q400 that had an unauthorized takeoff from seatac around 8:00 p.m. has gone down near tetron island in pierce county, washington. we re working to confirm who was on board. we believe there were no guests or crew on board other than the person operating the plane. first of all, if that is true, let me just say that is a relief. no passengers. we are obviously keeping our fingers crossed that that indeed turns out to be true. turns out to be accurate. no passengers, no other staff on board. let me go back to josh. josh, there are so many things about this story that are striking. is it how easy it is to how easy is it to take off in a q400. i m just looking at a picture of the plane. we re not talking about a tiny plane. a little less skill than a jet aircraft. you think of the larger jumbo