Commercial airliner stolen from Seattle, crashed

[Duck]

Stolen Plane In Seattle Crashes After F-15 Engages In Chase, Reports Say

It was stolen by some suicidal idiot. He was doing barrel rolls and lost one of the engines and crashed.

Here's a recording of air traffic control

http://garchives1.broadcastify.com/15227/20180810/201808102255-590200-15227.mp3

 

[dave350]

Damn.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Fuel card musta been rejected.

 

[Curlytrucker]

That's a pretty avg mentality for pnw. Considering how many serial killers was raised near Puget sound that's just a small surprise

 

[GAnthony]

That's a pretty avg mentality for pnw. Considering how many serial killers was raised near Puget sound that's just a small surprise

but injun is normal...........

 

[dave350]

Considering how many serial killers was raised near Puget sound

Really? How many?

 

[dave350]

Is a plane like that insured for theft?

 

[GAnthony]

Is a plane like that insured for theft?

a plane like that, someone just leaves the keys in the ignition and HOPES it gets stolen..

 

[r3gulator3]

a plane like that, someone just leaves the keys in the ignition and HOPES it gets stolen..

I bet you don’t even need keys.

 

[GAnthony]

I bet you don’t even need keys.

was meant to be a joke, like when you have a car you're sick and tired of, just leave the keys in the ignition, maybe even some gas money...

 

[Electric Chicken]

I bet you don’t even need keys.

Nope they have remote start with a fob. Press the unlock button twice and the cargo door opens.

 

[InTooDeep]

The guy said on my local news " I might have a few screws loose" no kidding

 

[r3gulator3]

was meant to be a joke, like when you have a car you're sick and tired of, just leave the keys in the ignition, maybe even some gas money...

Mine too...was implying a proper thief doesn’t need keys.

 

[Hammer166]

Small planes have keys, but nothing this size. It does take some know how to start one, you'd have to have at least rudimentary knowledge of how it works to even figure it out. But it'd be nothing for an aircraft mechanic like this dude.

 

[GAnthony]

Mine too...was implying a proper thief doesn’t need keys.

just a 3 or a 5 lbs dent puller.

 

[ironpony]

Small planes have keys, but nothing this size. It does take some know how to start one, you'd have to have at least rudimentary knowledge of how it works to even figure it out. But it'd be nothing for an aircraft mechanic like this dude.

I was going to say the same thing. Looks like he spent a lot of time with flight sim software.

A favorite prank to pull on new maintenance trainees in the Air Force was to claim you'd forgotten the keys, and coerce them to walk back to the shop, visit the line chief's truck, walk to maintenance control, etc to "get the keys for tail no. such 'n such airplane." Frequently they'd get sent all over the base on a snipe hunt searching for non-existant keys. We had helpers!



Or a bucket of prop wash. A yard of flightline. A can of radar test targets...

 

[Curlytrucker]

Really? How many?

NIGHTMARES from the NORTHWEST by Michael Hammerschlag

 

[krelithous]

The idiot said that he had a few screws loose while the dumb ads was flying on my local news

 

[Duck]

The idiot said that he had a few screws loose while the dumb ads was flying on my local news

@BirchBarlow said the same thing not too long ago.

 

[r3gulator3]

NIGHTMARES from the NORTHWEST by Michael Hammerschlag

Interesting. 50% man that’s crazy!