{"id":2626,"date":"2018-08-13T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2018-08-13T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T05:01:31","slug":"suicidal-employee-steals-crashes-horizon-air-q400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Suicidal Employee Steals, Crashes Horizon Air Q400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">(Reuters) &#8211; Federal authorities on Saturday were seeking to learn what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle\u2019s airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets and ended when the plane crashed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A Horizon Air ground service agent got into a Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft on Friday night in a maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and took off, Horizon sister carrier Alaska Airlines (ALK.N<span id=\"\u201dsymbol_ALK.N_0\u201d\"><\/span>) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-seattle-airplane\/mechanic-steals-empty-plane-from-seattles-airport-crashes-idUSKBN1KW03O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suicidal Employee Steals, Crashes Horizon Air Q400<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2627\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Q400-300x144.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Q400-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Q400-768x368.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Q400.png 895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image from www.bombardier.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Federal authorities on Saturday were seeking to learn what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle\u2019s airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets and ended when the plane crashed. A Horizon Air ground service agent got into a Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,1397,868,1103],"tags":[539,847,52,736,1425,813,1426,1427],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-air","tag-alaska","tag-bombardier","tag-crash","tag-horizon","tag-q400","tag-seattle-sea-tac","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}