{"id":373063,"date":"2018-08-12T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-seattle-plane-hijacker-had-security-clearance\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T08:12:07","slug":"presstv-seattle-plane-hijacker-had-security-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-seattle-plane-hijacker-had-security-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Seattle plane hijacker had security clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The airline employee who hijacked an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane from Seattle\u2019s international airport and crashed it on a nearby island had security clearance and was on his shift, airline officials say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old man, identified by the US media as Richard Russell, had worked for Horizon Air for more than three years, towing and tidying aircraft and loading bags.<\/p>\n<p>Russell used a machine called a pushback tractor to manoeuvre the 76-seater Q400 Bombardier airplane so he could board and then take off from Sea-Tac International Airport on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180812\/ae3aea3a-4a7f-489d-90bb-a50a5ee45516.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>This undated selfie picture available on social media on August 11, 2018 shows Richard B Russell, a ground service agent at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (Photo via AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The flight, which lasted for almost an hour, forced authorities to ground all flights at the airport while traffic control tried to persuade the man to land the plane. A number of F-15 fighter jets were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/12\/570927\/Seattle-plane-hijacker-had-security-clearance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline employee who hijacked an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane from Seattle\u2019s international airport and crashed it on a nearby island had security clearance and was on his shift, airline officials say. The 29-year-old man, identified by the US media as Richard Russell, had worked for Horizon Air for more than three years, towing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}