#322 The Tale of Richard "The Sky King" Russell & His Barrel Roll of a Lifetime [Vacation Series]

About this episode

The episode discusses the story of Richard 'The Sky King' Russell, who stole an airplane and performed a barrel roll before crashing.

A little after 7:30 p.m. on August 10, 2018, 28 year old Richard "Beebo" Russell was a couple hours into his work shift as a ground service agent for Horizon Air at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport when he inexplicably got into an airplane tug, moved an Alaskan Airline Bombardier Q400 from where it was parked for the night onto a runway, he turned and lined it up as if it were getting ready to take off...and he jumped on board by himself, started the plane and took off on what would be the most sig...

Topics covered

• Richard Russell
• airplane hijacking
• true crime

Keywords

• Horizon Air
• Seattle-Tacoma Airport
• Q400
• aviation

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Q400, Horizon Air, Alaskan Airlines

Books & works: The Tale of Richard "The Sky King" Russell

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