SeaTac Hijacker Had the Skills to Take Out a Skyscraper
‘A FEW SCREWS LOOSE’
Horizon Air ground handler Richard Russell knew how to fly without tearing the plane apart—and enough fuel to be a flying bomb. How was he able to take off without being stopped?
There has never been an airplane hijacking like the one executed as dusk approached at Seattle on Friday. Never has an otherwise empty commercial airplane parked in a maintenance area, been taken over, its two engines started, taxied out to a runway as though for a scheduled flight and took...
