A man who stole a plane from Sea-Tac airport used an airport tow tractor to turn the airplane around for takeoff, but when it came to flying the commercial aircraft Richard Russell may have been ...

An airport employee who stole a plane from Sea-Tac Airport managed to get away with it using his credentials, but how was he able to fly it for over an hour? Richard Russell, who took a Horizon Q400 ...

How did air traffic control handle the stolen plane incident in real-time? On one fateful day, something unthinkable happened: a man with no pilot training stole a passenger plane and took it on a ...

The friends and family of a man who stole a plane at Sea-Tac Airport spoke Saturday for the first time after the plane crashed. Richard “Beebo” Russell, a Horizon Air ground service agent, flew the ...

Richard Russell stole an empty plane from Sea-Tac Airport before crashing on Pierce County’s Ketron Island. Russell was an employee of Horizon Air and had a security clearance. Officials do not ...