Seattle Plane Stolen By Airport Worker Found Destroyed

Seattle, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Aug, 2018 ) :US investigators found Sunday the Horizon Air passenger plane stolen by a troubled Seattle airport worker smashed to pieces on a sparsely populated island as his family reacted with "complete shock," CNN reported.

After falling through several 100-foot (30-meter) lines of trees, the Bombardier Q400 plane broke up into pieces small enough to pick up by hand, National Transportation Safety board (NTSB) Western Pacific Region chief Debra Eckrote said.

"You couldn't even tell it was a plane except for some of the bigger sections, like the wing section," Eckrote said.

"Even the small sections, most of it doesn't resemble a plane." Two F-15 fighter jets chased the twin-engine turboprop plane that Richard Russell had hijacked.

During the hour he spent in the air, Russell flew the plane in a loop -- an improbable stunt caught on video by a surprised bystander -- then slammed it into Ketron Island in Puget Sound.

NTSB investigators are set to analyze the recovered flight data recorder for clues next week.