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The man then either became emotional or theatrical, exclaiming "Damnit Andrew, people’s lives are at stake here!" to which the ATC employee responds "Ah Rich, don't say stuff like that." This clip appears to be just a fragment of a conversation that was stepped on by other traffic, but he is saying something about "chalking it up" to minimum wage. Maybe that will grease the gears a little bit with the higher-ups." Offering a clue as to the man's motive, he tells the ATC " Ah, minimum wage. Here is the clip of him asking for help getting the cabin pressurized so he isn't "so lightheaded." /3uDKPKGvHo
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O圎e5T6JHJĪfter ATC controllers discussing the situatoin on the open mic suggest the man needs help, the man replied " Nah, I mean, I don't need that much help I've played some video games before." The man then asked how to pressurize the cabin because he was feeling "lightheaded." Here, the air traffic controller is trying to talk him into landing. We're just trying to find a place for you to land safely," to which the man replied: " Yeah, not quite ready to bring it down… This is probably jail time for life, huh? Well I would hope it would be for a guy like me." The ATC then tried to convince him to land at McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, WA, to which the man said "Aww man, those guys would rough me up if I tried landing there… Oh - they've probably got anti-aircraft!" The ATC replied "No, they don't have any of that stuff. Here he is realizing how quickly he is burning through fuel. "I don’t know what the burnage, burnout? is like on takeoff, but yeah, it’s burned quite a bit faster than I expected." "I’m down to 2100 I started at like 30-something," he reported.


The man next told ATC that he was quickly running out of fuel.
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I'm listening through the archive of the radio chatter on the #seatac hijacking. Just a broken guy, got a few screws loose I guess. "I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. It’s going to disappoint them to hear that I did this," said the man. " I’ve got a lot of people that care about me.
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The full 25-minute recording of a conversation between the man, identified as "Rich" on the tape, and air traffic control (ATC) employees can be found here, while Twitter user Jimmy Thomson posted key segments on Twitter shortly after the incident. No passengers were aboard the 76-seat Horizon Air Q400 turboprop plane stolen by the ground service agent from Pierce County, as he conducted an "unauthorized takeoff" from the airport and proceeded to attempt aerobatic maneuvers while chased by two F-15's scrambled by the National Guard.įull video form John Waldron on Facebook being shown on CNN #seatac /R98bl5uQBr View original post here.Īudio of the 29-year-old Seattle-Tacoma airline worker who hijacked an empty Alaska Airlines plane on Friday night before crashing to his death on a sparsely populated Island in puget sound reveal a deeply troubled man at the end of his rope.
