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Horizon Air employee Richard Russell hijacks and performs an unauthorized takeoff on a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Washington, flying it for more than an hour before crashing the plane and killing himself on Ketron Island in Puget Sound.
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Regional airline in the western United States
Horizon Air is an American regional airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group and it is paid by fellow group member Alaska Airlines to staff, operate, and maintain aircraft used on…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
2018 Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 incident
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On August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 was stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (Sea–Tac) by 28-year-old Richard Russell, a Horizon Air ground service agent with no piloting experience. After Russell performed an unauthorized takeoff, two…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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