Fucking Nut Steals Plane From Sea-Tac, Kills Self

[conjurer]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/11/us/plane ... index.html

Air Force jets scrambled from either Portland or JBLM (unclear as of yet), goof crashes into island in Puget Sound.

[labman]

Mechanic who thought he could fly

[conjurer]

Mechanic who thought he could fly

But couldn't land. Or, the Air Force jocks shot his ass down.

[foghorn]

Did he have clearance,Clarence?

[DocKlock]

Did he have clearance,Clarence?

Roger, Roger.

[bobbee]

#I believe I can fly#

Wrong!

[smellody]

Weird.... this AM the local news is not covering this at all. They were last night with vigor.

[Mark1]

Air Force jets scrambled from either Portland or JBLM (unclear as of yet), goof crashes into island in Puget Sound.

The F15s were from the 142nd Fighter Wing in Portland. They used to stand an alert (from the 142nd) at McChord but they stopped doing that years ago. They can get from Portland to the Canadian border in about 10 minutes if necessary. What surprises me about the whole deal is how the guy knew how to start and operate the aircraft systems necessary to get it in the air. The flying part is easy if you can get it off the ground, landing-well that would be harder and less forgiving for a ham fisted neophyte.

[conjurer]

Air Force jets scrambled from either Portland or JBLM (unclear as of yet), goof crashes into island in Puget Sound.

The F15s were from the 142nd Fighter Wing in Portland. They used to stand an alert (from the 142nd) at McChord but they stopped doing that years ago. They can get from Portland to the Canadian border in about 10 minutes if necessary.

That's what I thought, too; I remember some years back when Obama was flying into Boeing Field and some half-wit decided to fly his Cessna in restricted airspace. The F-15s flew over my house on afterburners, causing a sonic boom that had me voiding my bowels.

[svaglic]

Just for the record (in case I’m a labeled terrorist)... I used to work at Hughes aircraft simulators at Barbers Point Hawaii when I was younger. During slow periods I was allowed to fly the simulators and could pull up any air field in the world to land on. I could take off and fly fine, landing was tough. I got to where I would only kill around 20-30% of those on board during a landing.
The simulator was fun, it would move up, down, left, right and would shudder when I crash landed. I never landed a plane safely on the simulator, it was fun though... probably because it wasn’t serious for me and didn’t really matter in human life.

[biglove]

He flew the shit out of it before he nosed it in. I don’t think he ever intended to land it safely. Helluva way to exit this world.