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Strange Occurrences Highlight Insider Threat to Aviation Security (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Aug. 14, 2018
Report Number IN10954
Report Type Insight
Authors Bart Elias
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

On the evening of August 10, 2018, an airline ramp worker stole a 76-seat turboprop from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, crashing it on a remote wooded island in an apparent suicide. Days later, on August 13, 2018, a corporate pilot released on bail following a domestic violence arrest hours earlier stole a business jet and crashed it into his Utah home. In another incident in Utah in July 2012, a SkyWest Airlines pilot sought by authorities regarding the stabbing death of his girlfriend stole a regional jet from the St. George Municipal Airport and crashed it through an airport fence before fatally shooting himself inside the cockpit.