Aircraft stolen from Seattle airport crashes
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E-mail Xinhua, August 11, 2018
An aircraft stolen from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on the U.S. West Coast has crashed into the sea, airport authorities said Friday.
"An airline employee conducted an unauthorized takeoff without passengers at Sea-Tac; aircraft has crashed in south Puget Sound," Sea-Tac Airport (@SeaTacAirport) tweeted.
The airport authorities said normal operations at Sea-Tac Airport have resumed.
Video footage posted on social media showed the plane belonging to Horizon Airlines doing a loop-the-loop over the airport and being chased by fighter jets before crashing.
Horizon's partner Alaska Airlines said in a statement that the aircraft was a twin-prop Horizon Air Q400.
The Sea-Tac authorities did not disclose the identity of the airline employee who had stolen the plane.
Pierce police said this was not a terrorist incident but an individual case conducted by a single, 29-year-old suicidal man. "No others involved," Pierce Co Sheriff (@PierceSheriff) tweeted.
The Sea-Tac is the ninth busiest airport in the United States, serving more than 46.9 million passengers in 2017.
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