Crazy Story out of SeaTac

"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired) 08/11/2018 at 00:13 • Filed to: None

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Hearing rumblings that someone stole a Q400 at SeaTac, then crashed the aircraft. F-15s were scrambled. Article here with some details:

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Update: Alaska just issued a statement indicating no passengers were believed to be on board - only the thief:

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wafflesnfalafel > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 00:23

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f@ck...

HammerheadFistpunch > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 00:24

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oh good, the airport im flying home from in a few weeks on the airline im flying on.

LOREM IPSUM > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 00:25

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Quantas never crashed.

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 00:30

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I’m sure you’ll be fine. Lightning rarely strikes the same place twice.

TSA, on the other hand? Oh baby! Might as well just show up beltless and barefoot.

someassemblyrequired > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 00:30

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should be super secure after tonight

someassemblyrequired > wafflesnfalafel 08/11/2018 at 00:31

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luckily only the thief was onboard, and if the crash site location is what it seems to be, there’s not many homes in the area (island with a few homes, but it’s mostly woods).

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 00:33

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You’re in the PNW and didn’t want to stop to say hi? Bummer!

/S

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 00:33

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Wow glad to not be traveling this week.

HammerheadFistpunch > LOREM IPSUM 08/11/2018 at 00:33

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Thats good, I’ve also been struck by lightning.  

For Sweden > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 00:34

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This is the most bananas thing to happen since a disgruntled former FedEx employee tried to take down a A-300 with a speargun

And because it is 2018, we have video

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HammerheadFistpunch > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/11/2018 at 00:34

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just enough time to hop on the ship I’ m afraid.

The Snowman > LOREM IPSUM 08/11/2018 at 00:34

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Oh man lightning strikes the same place so many times. 

For Sweden > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 00:35

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^this is correct.

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 00:36

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In that case, you pretty much ARE travel insurance. Should be smooth sailing.

LOREM IPSUM > The Snowman 08/11/2018 at 00:37

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D on’t give the guy travel anxiety, lol.

Goggles Pizzano > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 00:38

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Unfortunately, same princip le does not necessarily apply to speed traps.

/experience

someassemblyrequired > LOREM IPSUM 08/11/2018 at 00:38

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Alaska’s probably running around and buying every The Club they can get their hands on tonight.

Dusty Ventures > LOREM IPSUM 08/11/2018 at 00:38

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Well, not since 1960

LOREM IPSUM > Dusty Ventures 08/11/2018 at 00:40

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But who’s counting?

#Rainman

Goggles Pizzano > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 00:46

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Future Story Post requested .

AfromanGTO > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 01:08

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They need to start using keys for planes.

pip bip - choose Corrour > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 01:11

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WTF?

not for canada - australian in disguise > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 01:53

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This is obviously a disgruntled Boeing employee trying to sully Bombardier’s reputation by crashing one. Don’t believe the Fake News Media people. I’ve got sources, very smart sources, people tell me they’re very smart people.

Mercedes Streeter > For Sweden 08/11/2018 at 02:02

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I believe the FedEx event was a DC-10. Then again, I have a track record of saying stupid stuff today, so I could be entirely wrong.

Spanfeller is a twat > someassemblyrequired 08/11/2018 at 02:35

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Really? Two crashes withint a month... won’t help to my hatred of airports.

Dusty Ventures > AfromanGTO 08/11/2018 at 07:33

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Ground crew personnel (as this man was) have to be taught how to start the planes so they can do so to move them around on the ground. One of my first jobs was as a ramp agent. Every night we would store three planes in the remote overnight storage area of the airport. We would tow it over with the tug, of course, but there needs to be a member of the ground crew in the cockpit ready to deploy brakes or do other emergency actions in case something happened with the tow and the plane broke free. Those controls only work if the plane is “on.” Not the actual engines, but the APU and other systems. And once you’re that far starting the engines themselves is a snap.

I loved that job, but the pay was garbage. Started at $9.25/hr, and out of that I had to pay union dues.

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 14:14

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Ok, it’s still bugging me today. Was that for the lulz or did it actually happen? Enquiring minds want to know.

HammerheadFistpunch > LOREM IPSUM 08/11/2018 at 14:53

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https://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=7971628

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 14:56

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Wow, I think I a ctually remember that incident. Had no idea you were involved, but glad to see you got away in one piece!

HammerheadFistpunch > LOREM IPSUM 08/11/2018 at 14:57

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neither did my wife, she was pretty pissed when she found out via the news...

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 14:58

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Something tells me she might not be the biggest fan of the idea of you hiking anymore.

HammerheadFistpunch > LOREM IPSUM 08/11/2018 at 15:01

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she’s actually less of a wuss with weather than I am these days.  Im still a little jumpy with lightning but getting better.

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch 08/11/2018 at 15:08

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Can’t say as I blame you!

When my grandma was a kid she and her brother were jumping on their living room sofa when the house was struck by lightning. As it was told to me, the lightning came through the leaded glass picture window and hit the sofa, presumably due to the metal coils, but who knows. She and her brother were apparently sent flying across the room and suffered both burns as well as a lifelong fear of thunder and lightning. I was told that at a young age I tried to convince her to hide in the closet during a thunderstorm because she was so terrified. Scary thing to experience, I can imagine.