He didn’t seem to have an agenda, much less a manifesto, although he did tell air traffic control: <\/p>\n
“Minimum wage, we’ll chalk it up to that. Maybe that will grease some gears a little bit with the higher-ups.”<\/em><\/p>\n After it was all over his brother called him ‘a faithful, godly man’.<\/p>\n Every else now calls him Sky King. <\/p>\n His wife Hannah has apparently never commented in public about her husband’s last act. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On August 10, 2018, 28-year-old Horizon Air ground service agent Richard Russell reported for work at Sea-Tac Airport as if it were just another normal work day for him. Russell, whose experience as a pilot came solely from playing video games, stole a Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 commercial airliner and took off in the direction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10228,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/beeboAndWife-300x200.webp\")
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