page_title: 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident
caption_attribution_description: MSN 4410 DHC-8 402 HORIZON AIR / ALASKA AIRLINES LAX AIRPORT
context_page_description: On August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 was stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington.
  The man responsible was 29-year-old Richard Russell. He was a Horizon Air ground service operator with no piloting experience.
  Russell performed an unauthorized takeoff and flew southward as F-15 fighter jets were scrambled to take down the plane. Sea–Tac air traffic control made radio contact with Russell. He was killed when the plane crashed on sparsely populated Ketron Island in Puget Sound.
context_section_description: On August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 was stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport ("Sea–Tac") in SeaTac, Washington.
  The man responsible was 29-year-old Richard Russell. He was a Horizon Air ground service operator with no piloting experience.
  Russell performed an unauthorized takeoff and flew southward as F-15 fighter jets were scrambled to take down the plane. Sea–Tac air traffic control made radio contact with Russell. He was killed when the plane crashed on sparsely populated Ketron Island in Puget Sound.
caption: A Q400 used in the incident pictured in 2015
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