Video Just Reported: Moments Before Seattle Airport Employee Stole Plane in 2018.

Newly released footage is shedding light on a 2018 incident in which a ground service agent stole an empty plane on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma Airport and performed an unauthorized takeoff before eventually crashing.

The video shows Richard Russell going through security wearing a T-shirt that read: “The sky’s no limit.”

Then he towed a 70-seater Alaska Airlines aircraft and placed it on the runway. The plane began moving forward without anyone controlling it after he had unhitched its tow line.

Russell ran beside him, opened the door, and ran up the steps to close the door behind. He took off five minutes later.

“I’ve got myself in a bit of a predicament. I’m in the air right now,”He told the tower.

It was a disaster for homeland security. Russell flew the plane for over an hour around Seattle and did some aerobatics. National Guard fighter planes were scrambled to protect the aircraft from terrorists.

Russell’s communication to air traffic control was a prediction of what was coming.

“I wouldn’t know how to land it. I wasn’t really planning on landing it,”He stated.

He crashed his plane onto an isolated island and killed himself.

Russell uploaded a video from his days as a baggage handler many years ago.

His wife and he looked happy together. But he was fighting inner demons, as he revealed in a haunting exchange with air traffic control.

“Just a broken guy who has got a few screws loose, I guess. It was something I didn’t know until now.

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