A really crazy story emerged overnight in Seattle where a guy stole an Alaska Airlines plane, did a loop-de-loop, was chased by fighter planes, and then crashed.
The crazy story unfolded on social media:
Some dude stole a plane from #Seatac (Allegedly), did a loop-the-loop, ALMOST crashed into #ChambersBay, then crossed in front of our party, chased by fighter jets and subsequently crashed. Weird times. pic.twitter.com/Ra4LcIhwfU
— bmbdgty (@drbmbdgty) August 11, 2018
I'm listening through the archive of the radio chatter on the #seatac hijacking. Below are some of the clips. pic.twitter.com/ziBAYv7cgn
— Jimmy Thomson (@jwsthomson) August 11, 2018
Full video form John Waldron on Facebook being shown on CNN #seatac pic.twitter.com/R98bl5uQBr
— Cameron Thomsen (@CameronThomsen) August 11, 2018
More from Fox News:
A Horizon Air passenger plane crashed on an island in Puget Sound Friday night, not long after a suspect conducted an “unauthorized take-off” from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state, officials said.
Witnesses reported seeing a large plume of smoke in the air above Ketron Island after the plane went down. No passengers were believed to be aboard the Q400 aircraft, airport officials said.
No one on the sparsely inhabited island was believed to have been injured, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said on Twitter.
An airline employee conducted an unauthorized takeoff without passengers at Sea-Tac; aircraft has crashed in south Puget Sound. Normal operations at Sea-Tac Airport have resumed.
— Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Airport (@flySEA) August 11, 2018
The unidentified pilot was a 29-year-old “suicidal male,” the sheriff’s department said. The Seattle Times reported that he was a Horizon Air employee from Sumner, Wash.
Male is confirmed a suicidal male. Acted alone he is 29 year old Pierce county residence . We are working back ground on him now.
— Pierce Co Sheriff (@PierceSheriff) August 11, 2018
The drama played out in real time on the Internet as the public was able to hear the suspect communicating with air traffic controllers via the air traffic control scanner.
“I’ve got a lot of people that care about me. It’s going to disappoint them to hear that I did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, I guess,” the suspect said, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"Nah, I'm a white guy." #seatac pic.twitter.com/OVtJqphgqo
— Jimmy Thomson (@jwsthomson) August 11, 2018
He sounds very emotional here. #seatac pic.twitter.com/eZAuuC5RNa
— Jimmy Thomson (@jwsthomson) August 11, 2018
Watches con air once #SeaTac #Seattle pic.twitter.com/bzIMYQIZX7
— carrie (@actualcarrie) August 11, 2018
Very unfortunate and sad news coming out of the #SeattleTacoma area this evening. There is a report of a Cessna circling a “crash site” possibly that of the empty @AlaskaAir #Q400 hijacked by a rogue individual. Still unconfirmed. #SEA #Seattle #SEATAC pic.twitter.com/TVEyRCJGHn
— Max Prosperi (@unaccompflyer) August 11, 2018
Here someone calling himself captain Bill tries to talk him into landing. #seatac Thanks @jackhauen for finding this. pic.twitter.com/0Ep8DQnhQm
— Jimmy Thomson (@jwsthomson) August 11, 2018
Hell of a way to go.
There are some tweets whining that if his name had been Ahmed they would have shot him down immediately. And I’m like, yeah? What’s your point?