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ATC audio from stolen plane at SeaTac airport

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Such a tragic and awesome story. Dude was manic and just broke while finishing up his shift last Friday. Took the Horizon/Alaska Air Q400 plane from the mechanical cargo straight to the runway and liftoff. 90 minutes in the air, talking to ATC the entire time, did a flyby of Mt Ranier and the Olympics, then a barrel roll over the water, and put the nose down.... crashing and burning on the barely inhabited Ketron Island.

 

Twitter broke late Friday as users started posting video of him on his joyride, accompanied by 2 F-15s out of Oregon.

 

RIP SkyKing. You will never be forgotten.

 

Freebird Tribute:

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Another tribute to Beebo/SkyKing

 

 

That barrel roll was incredible, he came withing around 50 feet of the water when he bottomed out on the loop.

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ATC audio and illustration of takeoff:

 

 

ATC did a tremendous job of remaining calm and trying to help Rich land the plane.

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