it was stolen by a mechanic working at seatac. that's the seattle-tacoma international airport in washington state. northwestern united states for our international viewers. that plane took off, and two f-15 fighter jets were scrambled, but they did not shoot it down, again, according to the county sheriff. they were not involved in the crash. the reason the plane crashed, according to the sheriff, is because of the lack of flying skills of the mechanic who had taken it and flown the plane in the first place. al also vital information, there were no passengers and staff, no one else aboard this plane. it was a q400. david soucie, from denver, colorado. tell us a little more about the plane, the q400. >> it's a twin turboprop. it's one that has had some kind of issues with some icing and things like that in the past. but it's a great airport. it's a good backbone airport for a lot of commuter airlines right now. >> have you ever seen anything like this? have you ever been called up to report on a story that even remotely resembles

like that seatac airport were grounded during the ordeal.e also have audio of a pilot on another horizon flight explaining to passengers what was happening. >> the faa is trying to talk him downbe right be here than anywhere else. i am not going to let him get close to here. they are trying to talk them into putting it in the water. again, this area is very safe. especially with the military monitoring things. >> they were in the air within minutes of the stolen plane taking off. >> the sheriff tweeted this. he said this is not a terrorist incident. this is a single suicidal male. no others involved. at this point we have no word on casualties on the stolen plane or on the ground. stay with us for continuing coverage of this breaking story. we are bringing you updates on air and online. >>> new details in the crash that killed two people on i-80 in fairfield. one of the victims was a veteran chb motorcycle officer and father of three. investigators say officer kirk griess was killed wfreeway. >> we have what we have learnet >> it was a routi

jamie yuccas, seatac washington.happening today: t to appear at p >>> the fbi announced it has recovered the flight data recorder and parts of the cockpit voice recorder from that crash. ity rent reduction of more than 4 million dollars. a clause in the contract allowed the cut if financial performance was better >>> happening today, the mayor of santa clara is set to appear it asap -- at a press conference to discuss rent arbitration between the city and the 49ers. two years ago, the teen asked the city for a rent reduction of more than $4 million. a clause in the contract allowed the cut if financial performance was better than expected, but the city fought back and went to arbitration. in the arbitrator, the arbitrator raised the team rent by 22%. >> they want them to pay their fair share and that's what i believe. and also the city should play fair and not create a political theater. >> in a statement, mayor lisa gillmor said unfortunately, the 49ers have a record of we accept the arbitrator's decision to increas

airlines tweeting this moments ago, confirmed that a rise air q400 had an unauthorized flight from seatac catron island in pierce county. we are working to confirm who was on board. we believe there were no guests or crew on board other than the person operating that plane. once again, this coming out of washington. i am jack jovanovich in new york. we will follow the story throughout the night and give you information as needed. let's go back to sean hannity, already in progress. >> jeanine: freedom of information, the only way we are gettinget information now is, as usual, through tom fenton and judicial watch. all right, now tom, you have all of this information about the oligarch and christopher steele, what is it about? >> look, christopher steele it looks like i was working with fusion gps, even back then, which we have to remember was representing putin's interest in court here in the united states, trying to target putin's critics and they keep putting critic that led to the magnitsky act that was famously discussed at the trump tower meeting. see you have these interests pushing,

. >> reporter: this is a fox news alert, suicidal mechanic stealing an aircraft from seatac airport by puget sound. the airplane making an unauthorized take off from the airport. witnesses say they saw the plane being followed by military aircraft near the airport. operations were shut down for a short time before returning to normal. the plane is a regional turboprop airplane that conceit 76 passengers. pierce county sheriff says it was stolen by 29-year-old mechanic and crashed while he was doing stunts of some form. the man whose name is not been released told air traffic controllers while he was flying that he was a broken guy and joked about whether the airline would hire him if he landed safely. you can see the plane up in the air. the controller asked him to land as a nearby military airfield but said he was worried they would rough him up if he tried to land and said to the controller, quote, this is probably jail time for life. the plane crashed in puget sound 25 miles from the airport. the coast guard responded to the crash site where a large plume of smoke could be seen. the

the seattle fbi office until sunday to cover the flight recorder from the plane stolen friday from seatacents of the car wastewater were also found at the ntsb is now processing the command. the medical examiner confirming that richard russell, ground service agent who stole the plane from seatac airport, died in the crash. >>> winning the pga championship sunday at missouri. he is the fifth golfer to ever win the u.s. open and pga championship titles in the same year. he's now won three of the last six majors since tiger would one of 4 meters in 2001. speaking of tiger, he came in two strokes behind brooks. i'm lauren greene, now back to victory. . mark: let me ask you this question, dr. pillsbury. academia. how have the chinese taken advantage of our so-called open campuses and free speech? >> they've got two goals, one is most of their 300,000 students here now -- mark: whoa, whoa works. they have 300,000 students here? i didn't know that. >> yes, over 300,000. the students are mainly in hard sciences and engineering, so they're focused on helping chinese economic growth in this next g

taking off from seatac airport and performing aerobattics while tried to convince him to land. >> flying around, needs help controlling his aircraft. >> not that much help, played video games before. >> owned by horizon air, part of alaska airlines. talking to air traffic controllers offered clues about state of mind. >> got a lot of people that care about me. it's going to disappoint them since they knew i did this. >> did not have a pilot's license, joked with controllers about his skills. flanked by fighter jets. russell, who is married, told controllers the plane was running low on fuel, crashed on small island in puget sound 30 miles from the airport. russell was killed. no one else was hurt but raised questions about aircraft security. >> no key to the aircraft, maybe will look at having a code. >> eric swallow on the committee for homeland security says more work needs to be done to restrict access to planes. >> there's technology that requires more credentials than being near the plane that probably could have prevented this. >> russell is believed to be only person on board that

. >> by the way, seatac and the seattle port autho say they have added more security in cargo areas and terminals following that stolen plane incident >>> still ahead, raiding your retirement, why more people are doing it, even though they shouldn't. >>> fax machines could be the next target of hackers, researchers warn that cyber criminals can exploit vulnerabilities in all in one printers. hackers are able to take over a device by farmingin of malicious code, millions of fax machines remain in usetoday. bill? >> millions of americans are saving for retirement thanks to automatic enrollment in their 401(k) many auto enrolled work irs are treating those accounts like an atm, withdrawing their long term savings prematurely. r senior personal correspondent has been sitting tre waiting patiently to tell us more about impact this could have on their financial future. let's start with this automatic enrollment program? >> about 70% of large employers right now are automatically enrolling their employees in a 401(k), when you arehired, you become part of that 401(k) plan unless you opt out. t

on friday an employee took a plane from seatac in seattle before crashing into the woods.utah a man took a plane before crashing it into his home killing only himself. >> the whole house, oh, my gosh. >> reporter: investigators in utah now trying to figure out why 47-year-old dewayne yau allegedly stole a plane from the company he works for and deliberately crashed it into his own home with family members inside. officials say on sunday he was booked on domestic violence charges and booked on bail then two hours later they got the call. >> house is fully involved. >> reporter: yau died in the crash. his wife and child were able to escape. yau's daughter processing what happened. >> i'm still in disbelief. >> another bizarre plane crash. >> i played video games before so i -- i know what i'm doing a little bit. >> reporter: authorities say richard russell, a baggage bagge handler stole a plane and took it on a 75 minute joyride before crashing. >> just a broken guy, got a few screws loose i guess never really knew it until now. >> reporter: he didn't have a pilot's license

during the incident the flights at seatac work grounded.motorcycle officer was killed in a crash in fairfield yesterday. officer kirk griess had pulled over the suv at a routine traffic stop on i-81 the pickup truck came by running into them. he has been 16 years at the solano office. he was married with three children and the youngest is 14 years old. we report on the loss of the california highway patrol and the fairfield and vacaville communities. >> he will be missed. this is difficult, he is a friend. >> the chp chief had just attended a safety conference with 46-year-old officer kirk griess, the veteran officer killed on the street she has been patrolling for years. >> this is work they do every day, stopping in helping people on the shoulder, enforcing the law but on this day someone ran off the road. >> reporter: officer griess was talking with the driver when the pickup truck slammed into both men on the shoulder. the four-year-old in the saturn and officer kirk griess dead on arrival at the hospital. >> reporter: chp solano posted

late friday night and airport worker stole an empty plane from seatac airport and crashed the plane into a remote island in puget sound. the pilot died in the crash. there are still several questions as to how richard russell could steal a commercial plane from a major airport and i go on a 75 minute flight. >> until the fbi has an opportunity to get a better background on the person, find out what motivated him it is too early to make a determination on what the objective was. >> the family of the man who stole that plane is speaking out and they say they are shocked by what he did. but this is a complete shock to us. we are devastated by these events. jesus is truly the only one holding this family together right now. without him we would be hopeless. as the voice recordings show, the intent was not to harm anyone. >> the fbi is evaluating security video to determine how russell could steal that plane. it was parked in the maintenance area and he took off without clearance from air traffic controllers. >>> a louisiana man says he is suing the maker of roundup. on friday jury in san fra

>> residence near seattle seatac stunned. >> i have a lot of people that care about me. it is going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. i would like to apologize to each and every one of them. just a broken guy. got a few screws loose, i guess. never really knew it until now. >> the wild scene unfolding last night. he had security clearance at the airport. he took off and spent the next hour performing dangerous maneuvers. >> to our knowledge he did not have a pilots license. to be honest with you, commercial aircraft are complex machines. they are not as easy to fly as a 150. i do not know how he achieved the experience he did. >> fighter jets scrambled to intercept the plane which eventually crashed on kitchen island. the fiery wreckage the scene here in is what it -- wooded area. the employee did not survive. >> we are expecting to find the recorders. we know where they are located in the aircraft. we just need to get out there, take a look at the wreckage and figure out where everything is and we can start digging into it. >> no one here was injured. investig

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how the hell did somebody get inside a plane at seatac airport. that's not ok." traveler: "i can not believe that really happened. no, impossible."the chase came to a fiery end when the plane nose-dived and crashed in a wooded area about 25 miles south of sea-tac. authorities believe the pilot was the only victim.debra eckrote, ntsb regional chief: "we're very lucky that it went on a very unpopulated island." investigators are now combing the wreckage.... looking for clues.the incident is raising a lot of security lt. colonel rick military analyst: what his he could have north and gone downtown have caused on the ground."hutcherson (justine) now to a (justine) reporting. (justine) now to a construction tragedy in san francisco.. where a worker died after a steel beam hit him.....while he was working on the twin peaks tunnel renovation project.(jr stone) kron 4's gayle ong is live where this happened. gayle, what can you tell us about this accident tonight? this happened inside the tunnel of this construction site here near ulloa (you-lo- a) street in the west por

how the hell did somebody get inside a plane at seatac airport. that's not ok." traveler: "i can not believe that really happened. no, impossible."the chase came when the plane nose-dived and crashed in a wooded area about 25 miles south of sea-tac. authorities believe the pilot was the only victim.debra eckrote, ntsb regional chief: "we're very lucky that it went on a very unpopulated island." investigators are now combing the wreckage.... looking for clues.the incident is raising a lot of security concerns.lt. colonel rick francona, cnn "no one knew what his intentions were. he could have easily turned north and gone through downtown seattle. he could have caused countless deaths on the ground."i'm kim hutcherson reporting.reporting. hutcherson i'm kim on the ground."i'm kim hutcherson reporting. reporting. reporting. (jrs) and new tonight at 10. we are hearing from the family of the man that crashed that plane. a family friend read a statement earlier where they referred to him by his nickname "bee-bo" and say they are shocked.

liz: coming up we now have chilling control tower audio of the man who stole a plane from seatac, flewt around then committed suicide. but first president trump backing a boycott of harley-davidson as the american motorcycle manufacturer it is increasingly investing in production facilities overseas due to the tariff fight. we bring up a guest to call it out on this story. after the break. jardiance asked: when it comes to managing your type 2 diabetes, what matters to you? you got a1c, heart, diet, and exercise. slide 'em up or slide 'em down. so let's see. for most of you, it's lower a1c. but only a few of you are thinking about your heart. fact is, even though it helps to manage a1c, type 2 diabetes still increases your risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease, significantly reducing the risk of dying from a cardiovascular event and lowering a1c, along with diet and exercise. this really changes things. jardiance can cause serious side effects incl

after stealing the plane from seatac, he talked to air controller while doing stunts. >> can this thing do a black flip, do you think? >> controller questioned his experience as a pilot. >> do you feel comfortable with that in. >> oh yeah, it is a blast. i play video games before. i know what i am doing a little bit. >> flying upside down and doing loops. scrambling fighter jets in response. >> the flight ending in a fiery crash into an island. russell did not survive and no others were hurt >> he worked his shift in uniform. for three and a half years, he was employed by horizon air owned by alaskan air. >> there is not a ignition key. >> a source close to the investigation says russell used a towing tractor to back the plane on the runway. the incident revealed a troubling security gap at our nation's airports where thousands have access to planes. >> this is not something it is not design to defend against. >> zachary was shocked to learn his long time friend was involved. >> he was not the type of person that would do anything dark. >> his personality shining through in a youtube vi

it is totally seattle seatac airport has been identified authorities identified him as 29 -year-old richardussell, ron agent been employed by the airlines for three and half years. he had declared to be among the planes do not have a pilot license. plane crashed 5 miles away in puget sound, one hour after it took off. authorities are calling it a suicide. >>> ten sailors donated to frederico after hurricane maria left to rot in the parking lot of a government facility. the donations collected at a government office after the devastating hurricane struck the island last year. the items were moved to trailers in a parking lot but apparently never delivered. i'm marianne rafferty and now back to justice with judge jeanine. >> welcome back to justice. let's get to it with my panel tonight. -- we were just talking about i.c.e. and the abolition of ice that how first it was a joke with michelle wolf and now people are actually offering money to have i.c.e. agents killed. during the break i did a quick count. there are about 35 democrats in congress who support the abolition of i.c.e. 133 democrat

seatac has had that problem with some departures.incinnati is in there because that is where the giants are tonight. i think they will be all right, but before that they will probably talking about some pretty good rain. it should be done by gametime. and onshore breeze for us. 80s to 90s. day two of a warmer pattern. san francisco forecast high of 68. normal is 60 degrees. plenty of low clouds. water temperatures haven't changed. they are still holding in their. i will show you that 50s on the temperatures to low 60s. rio vista is in there. brownwood, tracy, sunnyvale. 54 lakeport. 57 kelseyville. cloverdale a little cooler at 52. is same for san anselmo. novato same observation. for some a little cooler and for others in the upper 50s and 60s. a westerly breeze out of travis has been coming down. gust's to 30 a few hours ago and now it's at 18. 53 - 57. dega bay 50 bay 53. san francisco buoy 57. cool water goes all the way down to santa maria and then warms up. it is really only about upper 60s to 70s in santa barbara. it doesn't g

late friday night and airport workers stole an empty plane from seatac airports and crashed it into a remote island in puget sound. he died in that crash there is still a lot of questions as to how richard russell could steal a major airports plane and go on a 75 minute flight. >> until the fbi has an opportunity to get a better background on the person and find out what motive they had it is too early to make a determination on what the objective was. >> the family of the man who stole that plane is speaking out and saying they are shocked by what he did. >> this is a complete shock to us. we are devastated by these events. jesus is truly the only one holding this family together right now. without him we would be hopeless. as the voice recordings show, the intent was not to harm anyone. >> the fbi is evaluating security video to determine how russell stole that plane, which was parked at a maintenance area. and then take off without getting clearance from air traffic controllers. >>> today many kids are going back to school. in mid-august a lot of them are heading back to class a li

he stole the empty plane from seatac airport friday night, and this guy was flying loops and rolls beforeely crashing. >> and of course those in the aviation industry, avrd and every day people are completely shocked by what happened. >> that includes local pilots. carolyn tyler talked with some of them today to find out what it takes to fly a plane with virtually no experience. >> experienced pilots are shocked that someone with no train cog not only get a plane off the ground, but perform loops and other complicated maneuvers. >> that's not easy, particularly in a transport category aircraft. that's not easy at all. >> reporter: chris ingle flew commercial planes for 35 years. he calls it amazing that a 29-year-old baggage handler who authorities say did not have a pilot's license seemed to confidently operate a stolen plane until his fatal crash. >> the man got some ability from somewhere. >> the man richard russell told air traffic controllers where he got his skills. >> i played video games before. so i know what i'm doing a little bit. >> right now you're flying over sfo? >> at the

. >>> and, lots of questions about airport security after a worker at seatac international airport inle a passenger plane and flew it for more than an hour. >> this is a one in 1 million experience. that doesn't mean we can't learn from it. welcome to the xfinity store. thanks, janet. it's my happy place. you can learn how to switch to xfinity mobile, a new wireless network that saves you cash. and you can get 5 lines of talk and text included with your internet. and over here i'm having my birthday party. dj fluffernutter, hit it! ♪ dj fluffernutter simple. easy. awesome. ask how to get $300 back when you sign up for xfinity mobile, and purchase a new samsung phone. visit your local xfinity store today. >>> now to our top stories. an oakland police officer is hospitalized in critical condition after being involved in a car crash near the port. the officer was responding to a report of suspect -- suspicious people at 3:00 this morning. he was driving his police suv on middle harbor road without the lights or sirens on, when he crashed into a silver car and then a parked big rig. polic

. >> reporter: this is a fox news alert, suicidal mechanic stealing an aircraft from seatac airport bye airplane making an unauthorized take off from the airport. witnesses say they saw the plane being followed by military aircraft near the airport. operations were shut down for a short time before returning to normal. the plane is a regional turboprop airplane that conceit 76 passengers. pierce county sheriff says it was stolen by 29-year-

. >> reporter: just after 7:30 at seatac when r horizon worker takes it for a deadly joyride. >> righte's just flying around and he just needs some help controlling his aircraft. >> i don't need that much help. i played video games before. >> a calm traffic controller tries to persuade him to make a landing, an air base in the facility. >> there's a runway off your right side in about a mile. do you see that? that's the mccord field. >> oh, man, those guys are rough -- try landing there. i think i might mess something up there too. wouldn't want to do that. >> but it becomes increasingly clear -- >> this is probably like jail time for life, huh? i would hope it is for a guy like me. >> that russell has no intention of making it out alive. >> i think i'm going to to try to do a barrel roll, if that goes good, i'm going to nose down and call it anight. >> do we leave? what do we do. >> russell who officials believe had no experience flying a plane makes treacherous loops as armed f-15 scramble to prevent massive casualties on the ground. >> all right, this is captain bill, congratulation

. >> we know the seatac airport is the ninth busiest in the country. if it happens there it makes me wonder if smaller airports are at greater risk? and how often are airplanes of any size stole sfwloon i would say the risk isn't really correlated to the aircraft -- or i'm sorry the airport size. if you have an airplane that is park and serviced obviously you have what think a small risk but a risk. and this is only the second incident i'm aware of something like this happening. there was a couple of years ago, i believe, an attempt was made in utah to take an aircraft. and that didn't -- that aircraft didn't even get off the ground. sadly it ended with the employee li employee committing suicide before the airplane moved far at all. >> juliette, real quick, we learn the fbi is leading this investigation as opposed to the ntsb. how do you see this playing out? >> well, i think the fbi -- if the fbi does determine relatively quickly this is sort of open and shut, this was an individual who clearly had some mental issues, then the question will simply be

seat seatac. it was bright out. so he pulls this off, broad daylight. i would have to guess, he was ignoring instructions from the ground crew and air traffic control. because any aircraft that makes it on to any active runway has to first get clearance from air traffic control. with flight lessons and that flight, the first thing you do before you go open to a specific runway, you call air traffic control, is it clear for you to do this, and they give you the go ahead. i would have to guess they knew relatively quickly that something wasn't quite right with this aircraft. yes, that is the outstanding questioning. how did he make it on to the active runway and take off and he wasn't authorized to do so? that will be something that the airline and the airports are really going to want to put their heads together to figure out how can we prevent this from happening again. but i will say, this is a tough one. this is someone who had the access. he is what you considered a trusted individual. a trusted airport worker. >> he must have known something about h

. >>> there are still very few answers to the bizarre theft of an airplane from seatac internationallane died in the eventual crash, leaving authorities trying to figure out what happened. fox news's jeff paul has more. >> this is truly a one in 1 million experience. that doesn't mean we can't learn from it. >> reporter: officials admit they do not know how a seattle airport employee managed to steal a commercial plane, which ventured through the area friday in an empty turboprop for more than an hour. he was killed when the plane crashed on ketron island, southwest of tacoma. no one on the ground was hurt. the seattle commissioner says it does not appear to have been a lapse in security. >> all security protocols were handled appropriately at the airport. that is something that we pride ourselves on. >> reporter: the ntsb is analyzing a data and voice recorder found in the wreckage. aside from the bold act of stealing the airplane, investigators are also looking into how russell flew around before crashing. experts say the 29-year-old executed large loops and dangerous maneuvers, de

. >> officials at seatac airport on the defensive after a suicidal airline employee managed to steal an empty commercial plane and take it on a bizarre flight that ended with a deadly crash. >>> fbi firing. an agent terminated over and had trump text messages. >> what does trump support smell like? >> that's an expression of speech. >> reporter: why some lawmakers and the president believe this decision should bring an end to the russia investigation. the four on 2 starts now. >>> an officer headed to a call near the port of oakland this morning hit a car before then slamming into a parked big rig. firefighters were forced to cut him from the wreckage but he suffered serious injuries. welcome everyone to the four on 2. i'm alex savidge. >> i'm heather holmes. that officer remains hospitalized in critical condition. crime reporter henry lee is live outside of the police union with the latest on the investigation into this crash. >> reporter: officers have been streaming in and out of the police unit behind me, even support to the injured officer whose father is a veteran with the depa

on friday, an employee at seattle's seatac airport took a passenger jet and crashed it in the woods. yesterday, investigators say a pilot in utah stole a plane from work and deliberately crashed it into his own home. both of these incidents raised questions about airport security. the utah pilot, 47-year-old dwayne yaod bailed out of jail on sunday after being accused of domestic violence. he died, his wife and daughter escaped. a narkt says he called 911 when he saw the plane go down. >> lower and lower. i said, oh, my gosh. it's going to hit the mountain. it's getting lower. you could see it getting lower. all of a sudden a huge ball of orange fire. >> in seattle, authorities are still reviewing data recordings from friday's crash involving a baggageler for horizon air. sea-tac authorities said richard russell had passed background checks and extra security measures at the airport. >> in gma's first look, it's happened again. a visitor to a national park getting a lot closer to dangerous wild animals than he should have. >> in this morning's gma first look, a scene right out of a n