pa href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/richard-russell-family-seattle-plane-091916379.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GSsAmYHFVilowZDU3lEarQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/the_independent_635/94e07c746a60d99976213593b2bd81a2" width="130" height="86" alt="Richard Russell: Family of Seattle plane hijacker speak of apos;complete shockapos; at airline workerapos;s death" align="left" title="Richard Russell: Family of Seattle plane hijacker speak of apos;complete shockapos; at airline workerapos;s death" border="0" /aThe family of a "suicidal" airline employee who hijacked a passenger plane in Seattle have spoken of their shock and sadness at his death. Richard Russell, a ground service agent at Sea-Tac International Airport, took off in an empty 76-seater plane at the height of rush hour on Friday evening. The Horizon Airlines worker flew the plane for around an hour, committing a number of dangerous manoeuvres while being followed by military jets, before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound at 8.47pm.pbr clear="all"
