Plane crashes after 'unauthorized take-off' from SeaTac airport, officials say

a reply to: SailorJerry

Altitude for speed.
Speed for altitude.

Energy management.

a reply to: lakenheath24



"The greatest threat we have to aviation is the insider threat," Erroll Southers, a former FBI agent and transportation security expert

So riddle me this, batfolks, wtf is TSA busy friskin grandmas for?!

a reply to: slatesteam

You don't ignore one threat to focus on another.

Strange how f15s were able to intercept within minutes(or "greet him" as the local news put it last night, lol), yet on 9/11 no luck. Very strange.

a reply to: CymaticA

Strange how last night, the flight was within a few miles of a radar transmitter that was tracking him, and he was telling the controllers what he was doing and in general where he was, but on 9/11 they didn't.

So did we come to a consensus yet....plane guy, or tank guy?


Here is tank guy
www.youtube.com...

Here is plane guy....with audio.

www.youtube.com...

I gotta go with plane guy. The commentary is fantastic, he stacked a $40 million plane AND he started a forest fire. Its the holy trifecta of offing one's self.

a reply to: lakenheath24
Plane guy by a mile!
Tank guy, meh, easy to figure out how to drive it in a few minutes, armoured protection so LEO's couldn't get to him, slow, no danger to the guy...lame as # compared to plane guy and his barrel roll.
Plane guy only wanted to kill himself as well, so he burned a few trees, but didn't wreck private property of regular citizens like tank guy did.
Gold medal for plane guy, participation medal for tank guy, maybe a gold star sticker for wrecking the RV, but no place on the podium compared to plane guy.

Agreed. Pulling out of that dive was epic. Whats the bet those planes start turning up at airshows doing barrel rolls.

a reply to: CornishCeltGuy

originally posted by: CymaticA
Strange how f15s were able to intercept within minutes(or "greet him" as the local news put it last night, lol), yet on 9/11 no luck. Very strange.

Strange how you are doing what "Awakened Minds" always do which is cherry pick info to fit whatever narrative you are trying to tell.

I wonder how he figured out the radio, unless it was already tuned to
ATC

a reply to: The Great Day

Ground crews have to use the radio when doing normal daily procedures, like towing, or if they have to taxi for maintenance. Radios aren't hard to figure out and frequencies are easy to find online, as well as in the cockpit if the airport charts are handy.

a reply to: Zaphod58

I wondering why support let him sign out the keys to the jet in the first place.

a reply to: lakenheath24

A lot of airlines just keep them over the sun visor so maintenance doesn't have to tromp all over the airport to find them.

a reply to: Zaphod58

I thought they stopped that. They used to be stored with the Prop Wash.

a reply to: lakenheath24

They kept dropping them in the Flight Line that was kept with the Prop Wash. You know what a pain in the ass that stuff is when you unroll it, and once the keys are in it that's the only option.

a reply to: Zaphod58
Lol, I googled that

a reply to: CornishCeltGuy

It's a right of passage.

a reply to: Zaphod58

So many good ones. Echo checks in the intakes. Blowing on pitot tubes to check the ground speed indictors. NDI checks on your boots. Sent guy to the hospital for their pap smear. Ahhhh, the good ole days.

a reply to: lakenheath24

It was more fun when everyone was in on it and you would see guys walking back with their boots in hand, with a red tag hanging off them.

The aircraft was N449QX, msn 4410. It first flew in 2012