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[♪ suspenseful music playing]
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[mother] I have not heard the audio.
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I still don't want to hear the audio.
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I can't hear his voice.
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[sniffles] 'Cause his voice
was very special.
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His voice... He spoke so well,
and I knew that as soon as I heard...
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[sniffles]
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I just couldn't handle it.
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[traffic controller 1]
This copy is being prepared by
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the Seattle Airport Traffic Control Tower.
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The subject concerns an aircraft accident
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involving November 449 Quebec X-ray
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at approximately 02
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33 UTC.
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I certify that the following
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is a true copy
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of the original recorded transmissions
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pertaining to the aircraft accident.
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[producer] Ready?
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Let's do it.
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[reporter 1] ...into the extraordinary case
of a stolen plane in Seattle.
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[bystander 1]
That is not a drone. That is a real plane.
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[bystander 2] What the hell?
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[♪ tense music playing]
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[reporter 2] Eyewitnesses on the ground
were shocked at what they were seeing.
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[beeping]
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[♪ music ends]
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[narrator] Live from Fox 13 News,
this is Good Day Seattle.
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[♪ upbeat music playing]
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[news anchor] Hi there, everyone.
Just about 8:29 here
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on your Friday morning.
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Thank you for joining us
on Good Day Seattle.
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- Hi, I'm Erin Mayovsky.
- And I'm Bill Wixey,
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and we begin with a live look
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at Sea-Tac Airport, where a busy travel
weekend is kicking off,
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and the weather's gonna cooperate.
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It's gonna be
a pretty nice weekend, right?
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[weathercaster]
This will be a fantastic weekend
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{\an8}in the greater Seattle area.
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{\an8}Here our Capitol Hill camera
showing partly cloudy skies this morning.
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{\an8}[line ringing]
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[Ken] Ramp Tower, Ken Rupp.
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[Colleen] Hi, this is Colleen
at Seattle Approach.
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[Ken] Hi Colleen, how are you?
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[Colleen chuckles]
Pretty good, how about you?
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[Ken chuckles] Just dandy.
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[Colleen] Oh good.
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{\an8}Sea-Tac is considered to be
a Core 30 airport,
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{\an8}which means it's one of the top 30
busiest airports in the United States.
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[chattering]
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As operations supervisor,
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I'm responsible
for handling anything that happens,
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ordinary or out of the ordinary.
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[reporter 3] Immigration reform,
a government shutdown,
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all being discussed
in one breath right now,
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{\an8}and for many on a daily basis.
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{\an8}[♪ suspenseful music playing]
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It was a normal shift
up until I got that call.
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[traffic controller 2] Horizon 2006
I'll have you turn in the air.
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Runway one six center. Clear for takeoff.
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[pilot 1] Clear for takeoff
one six center, Horizon 2006.
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[traffic controller 2] Aye sir,
one one Papa on taxi pop across.
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Runway one six left. What is your gate?
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[pilot 1] On Papa [unintelligible].
Gate zero one.
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[news anchor 2] Marine biologists
are keeping a close eye
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on an endangered orca off the waters
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around the southern Gulf Islands.
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The mother has been carrying the corpse
of her calf for more than a week,
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as Tom Walsh explains,
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they may believe the mother is
going through a deep grieving process.
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[pilot 2] Depart Horizon 2006, 2300,
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3000.
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[Ken] Horizon Air 2006.
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Seattle Departure radar contact.
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Cleared direct VAMPS.
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Climb and maintain 15,000.
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[pilot 2] VAMPS up to 15,000, Horizon 24.
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I'm sorry, 2006.
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[♪ tense music playing]
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[door closes, locks]
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[engine turns on]
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[Ken] Aircraft on Charlie,
lining up, runway one six center.
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Say your call sign.
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The Dash 8 holding
on runway one six center.
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[♪ music continues]
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[Ken] The Dash on runway one six center
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say your call sign.
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Who is the Dash 8
holding on runway one six center?
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[rattles]
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[traffic controller 3]
That aircraft was taking off rolling.
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I don't know what he was doing.
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His wheels were smoking left and right,
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as they are right now,
as he's rolling down the runway.
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[Ken] Alright,
I'm not even talking to him.
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[unknown pilot] Seattle Ground.
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Horizon guy,
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about to take off.
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This is going to be crazy.
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[♪ music continues]
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[♪ music ends]
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[dial tone]
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[line ringing]
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[Colleen] Approach, Colleen.
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[traffic controller 4] Hey, Colleen?
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- [Colleen] Is this Jason?
- [Jason] Yeah. Hey, we just had a Dash 8-
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He's just taken off, taxi out of cargo 1.
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He never called us.
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[Colleen] Okay.
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[Jason] He's climbing
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just off the south end, about a mile.
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- [Colleen] Okay, I think I see it.
- [Jason] We have no contact with him.
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[Colleen] Okay, I'll take care of it.
I'll get right back to you.
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Bye.
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- [line ringing]
- [♪ tense music playing]
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[automated voice] You've reached
the FAA Washington Operations Center.
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Be advised.
All calls may be recorded or monitored.
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- [Colleen] Just answer.
- [automated voice] Please stand by.
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[♪ smooth jazz playing on phone]
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[♪ smooth jazz ends]
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[operator 1] Headquarters.
Go ahead, Seattle.
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[Colleen] Hey, this is Colleen
at Seattle Approach Control.
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{\an8}We got a potential very serious situation.
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{\an8}[♪ tense music continues]
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{\an8}Everything pointed to it being a hijack.
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This is a major metropolitan area.
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[airplane passing overhead]
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If that plane was used as a weapon,
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then thousands of people
would definitely be killed.
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[bystander 2] What the hell?
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- [bystander 3] Shit.
- Oh, my God. What is happening right now?
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[bystander 4]
It's a fucking Alaska Airlines Q-400.
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What the fuck is he doing over here?
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Go get the truck keys and get my wallet.
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[unknown pilot]
Hey, Horizon Ground, you on?
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Seattle Ground, I mean.
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[Ken] Who is transmitting on Ramp?
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[unknown pilot] Sorry.
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Horizon guy, 449 Quebec X-ray.
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[Ken] Yeah, 449. Did you just take off?
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[unknown pilot] Yeah.
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[Ken] And you're not supposed
to be on that aircraft?
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[unknown pilot] Uh, no.
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[Ken] What's going on?
Are you flying the plane?
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[unknown pilot]
Uh, I did a kind of a bad thing.
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Kind of a selfish thing.
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Uh. Hah!
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But it's all good.
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I'm gonna go check out Rainier.
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[♪ music continues]
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[Ken] Yeah, 449. So, you hijacked
the plane is what you're saying?
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[unknown pilot] Uh, yeah.
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[Ken] 449, say again.
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[unknown pilot] Yeah, I'm afraid I did.
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You know, I don't want to take up...
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take up this channel.
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What's another good one to talk to?
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[Ken] 449, stand by.
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I'm getting a frequency for you.
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[unknown pilot] Hey, copy that.
I appreciate it. Hey.
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Any idea of a Dash 8 Q400
can do a barrel roll?
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[Colleen] When the plane took off,
I had no idea who was behind the wheel.
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[♪ music ends]
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Where is he going to go?
What does he want to do?
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I needed to get a single controller
on that frequency to talk to him.
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And the right person was Andrew.
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[Andrew] The gentleman flying the Q400,
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can you hear me?
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[unknown pilot] Hey, you on?
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[Andrew] Yeah, Seattle Approach here.
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- [unknown pilot] Hey.
- [automated voice] Low terrain.
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- [unknown pilot] I keep getting a weather...
- [automated voice] Pull up.
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like a weather
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thing.
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I just want to talk to you.
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[Andrew] Okay, and you're in the...
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You're in the Dash 8
that just took off Sea-Tac?
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[unknown pilot] Yeah, affirmative.
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[Andrew] And do you have a call sign?
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[unknown pilot]
Nah man, I'm a ground service agent.
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I don't know what that is.
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[Colleen] Okay, he's a ground crew guy.
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[beeping]
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{\an8}[person 2] Proceed.
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{\an8}[person 3] Just want to give you guys
an update real quick.
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{\an8}We believe we have multiple witnesses
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{\an8}that saw the guy near the transit plex,
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{\an8}so the Cargo 1 area.
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{\an8}Push back the airplane himself.
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{\an8}While the plane was rolling,
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{\an8}- disconnect the pushback tug...
- [Colleen] Mm-hmm.
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{\an8}...ran up the stairs, jumped in the plane,
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{\an8}- started driving it off...
- [Colleen] Holy crap.
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{\an8}...cut off jetliners, and just took off.
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{\an8}[Colleen] Wow.
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{\an8}[person 3] So, pretty, pretty brazen,
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{\an8}- amazing stuff.
- [Colleen] Yeah.
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{\an8}[line clicks]
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{\an8}[ground crew worker 1]
When I got word that a plane was taken,
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it was on the news.
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I heard the voice,
and I said, "That's him."
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[♪ melancholy music playing]
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I couldn't believe it.
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First of all, how did he pull that off?
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{\an8}How did he get that plane in the air
by himself when it takes two... two people?
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Takes the captain and the first officer.
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And how did no one know?
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[Andrew] Okay, and what's your name?
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[unknown pilot] That's a question
I've been asking my whole life.
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[whoops, chuckles]
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Identity issues.
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[Andrew] Just so I can talk to you,
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what's your name so I can
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reach out to you a little easier?
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[retches]
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[unknown pilot] Sorry, my mic came off.
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I threw up a little bit.
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You know--
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I-- Hold on--
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Shoot. Man, I'm sorry about this.
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I hope this doesn't ruin your day.
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No, no. You're not ruining my day.
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I just- can I just get your first name
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so I can, I know what to call you?
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So it'll be a little easier
to talk to you.
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[unknown pilot] Yeah, Richard Russell.
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[Andrew] Okay, Rich, appreciate that.
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[Colleen] Richard Russell.
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His name is Richard Russell.
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[door closes]
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[mother] When we heard the report,
we had no clue that it was him.
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He was never Richard Russell.
He was never.
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[♪ melancholy music playing]
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His name is Beebo.
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{\an8}It's always been Beebo.
It will always be Beebo.
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Beebo.
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[person 4] Hold it.
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[news anchor 3]
Deadly drama in the skies over Seattle.
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Tonight we're learning much more
about the 29-year-old ground employee
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with Horizon Air,
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that company owned by Alaska Airlines,
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accused of bringing that busy airport
to a halt
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and putting so many lives at risk.
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[♪ music continues]
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When I heard it, it-it destroyed me.
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I started working for Horizon in 2015.
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Pay wasn't that good,
but I needed the job, so I took it.
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Richard trained me.
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And we worked together.
251
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Bringing in my first plane, I was nervous.
252
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Well, the Q400, it's a prop plane.
253
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It's like an open blender.
254
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You can get hurt quickly
if you don't know what you're doing.
255
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But Richard was right behind me.
256
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He reassured me not to be
so scared of that, just take your time.
257
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So that's how I got really
to know Richard.
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He seemed like a levelheaded person.
259
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[♪ music continues]
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[Wixey] Why he did it?
Well, that is still a mystery.
261
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[Andreas] My first thought is,
"What did they do to him?"
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It wasn't what he did to Horizon.
263
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What did Horizon do to make him do that?
264
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[news anchor 4] He's been identified
rather as 29-year-old Richard Russell.
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Officials say he did not have
a pilot's license,
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but he did have clearance
to be in a secure area of the airport.
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[Karen] It's just a whirlwind.
268
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I remember seeing his picture on the TV,
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and it was funny
'cause when he was a little boy,
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three or four, I had a dream.
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I was walking past a newspaper stand,
you know, the old-fashioned one,
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put the 50 cents in, get the newspaper,
273
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and on that was his picture.
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And I thought that was so funny.
It was a dream.
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But then 24 years later, it was a reality.
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[♪ music continues]
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So I got a little bit off
the beaten path and, uh,
278
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don't really know where to go, um...
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Kinda found myself in a pickle.
280
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[Andrew]
As far as just flying the plane around,
281
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you seem comfortable with that?
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[Richard] Oh, hell yeah,
it's a blast, man.
283
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I've played video games before, so
284
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I--
285
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You know,
I know what I'm doing a little bit.
286
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That's when I realized he hasn't
ever flown an airplane before.
287
00:14:33,372 --> 00:14:34,373
[Andrew] Okay, and--
288
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and you can see
all the terrain around you?
289
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You've got no issue
with visibility or anything?
290
00:14:39,796 --> 00:14:42,131
[Richard] Nah, everything's peachy,
peachy clean.
291
00:14:42,215 --> 00:14:44,801
Just did a little circle around Rainier.
It's beautiful.
292
00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:49,680
I think I got some gas to go check out
the Olympics.
293
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And, yeah.
294
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[Colleen]
The pilot sounds really hyped up.
295
00:14:55,686 --> 00:14:57,438
[operator 1] Okay,
can you ask him how much fuel
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that he thinks he has on the airplane?
297
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[Colleen] Okay.
298
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{\an8}There's two things that everyone is
trained to do in air traffic control.
299
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{\an8}You find out how many people are
on board the aircraft,
300
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and how much fuel is remaining
on the aircraft,
301
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because if it crashes,
302
00:15:15,373 --> 00:15:19,127
the firefighters need to know
how big is the fire going to be.
303
00:15:20,211 --> 00:15:24,048
And they need to know how many
bodies they're looking for.
304
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[Andrew] Okay, Rich, do you have an idea
of how much fuel you have left?
305
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[Richard] Damn! I already burned
like a thousand pounds,
306
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so I'm down to 2,100.
I started at like 30 something.
307
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[Colleen] At 2100 pounds,
that gave him about an hour of fly time.
308
00:15:44,986 --> 00:15:46,904
In an hour he's gonna fall out of the sky.
309
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[airplane passing overhead]
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- [Karen] Got a hot sunny day for you.
- [person 5] I know.
311
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[Karen]
I think this one looks better though.
312
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My little bundle of joy.
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[kid 1] Mommy.
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He was a bundle of joy.
315
00:16:04,463 --> 00:16:06,465
[brother 1] He was always a treasure,
316
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{\an8}you know, in a house full of chaos,
317
00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:11,387
{\an8}it was nice to have something,
you know, that was...
318
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{\an8}that was calm and that wasn't so rough.
319
00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:21,272
[brother 2] Growing up in my house,
it was pretty hectic.
320
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{\an8}Lots of kids. I am a twin.
321
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Then I have two sisters that are twins,
and then Beebo was the middle child.
322
00:16:31,073 --> 00:16:32,658
- [clamoring]
- [♪ melancholy music playing]
323
00:16:32,742 --> 00:16:33,743
[Karen] You're the man.
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00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:36,370
[Phil] My sisters and Beebo
had a different dad,
325
00:16:36,454 --> 00:16:40,166
- and he... he was an alcoholic...
- [Karen] Let's see your muscles.
326
00:16:40,249 --> 00:16:42,335
[Phil] ...so that made the house
a little more hectic.
327
00:16:42,418 --> 00:16:44,795
[Karen]
I'll show you my muscle. There you go.
328
00:16:44,879 --> 00:16:47,965
Oh, that's a big muscle, Beebo.
I don't know what to do about that.
329
00:16:48,049 --> 00:16:51,677
{\an8}Growing up, we didn't have, like,
the easiest childhood,
330
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{\an8}but, um, Beebo was always there
to take care of my sister and I.
331
00:16:56,432 --> 00:16:58,017
[chattering]
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[aunt] Their father was not a good person.
333
00:17:02,897 --> 00:17:05,399
{\an8}He was physically abusive.
334
00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:09,111
{\an8}He was verbally abusive.
335
00:17:09,654 --> 00:17:10,780
It was awful.
336
00:17:14,075 --> 00:17:20,539
When Beebo was six
and the girls were five,
337
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I took the kids, and we left.
338
00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:29,465
I did not think I could survive
with five kids, but I had no choice.
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I had to step up. I had to be strong.
340
00:17:35,179 --> 00:17:39,600
I did not get a dime in federal aid,
not a dime.
341
00:17:39,684 --> 00:17:41,060
[person 6] Where would he live?
342
00:17:41,143 --> 00:17:42,520
[speaks indistinctly]
343
00:17:42,603 --> 00:17:45,731
[Pat] I think that was one reason
he was so kind.
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00:17:46,566 --> 00:17:47,567
[vocalizes]
345
00:17:47,650 --> 00:17:52,446
And that he was funny because
he didn't want to be like his father.
346
00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:55,199
[Karen] And the birthday boy...
347
00:17:55,283 --> 00:17:58,452
And, uh, Beebo has
his first football game next Saturday.
348
00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:02,081
Despite all of it, he busted through it.
349
00:18:02,164 --> 00:18:04,417
Whoo! Whoo!
350
00:18:05,793 --> 00:18:07,295
- [laughter]
- Whoo!
351
00:18:09,005 --> 00:18:10,298
[♪ orchestral music playing]
352
00:18:10,381 --> 00:18:13,092
{\an8}[cheering in distance]
353
00:18:16,679 --> 00:18:19,056
[sister] Everybody knew Beebo.
Everybody loved Beebo.
354
00:18:21,767 --> 00:18:24,645
{\an8}He's the one and only Beebo,
but really, truly he was the one and only.
355
00:18:24,729 --> 00:18:26,397
[♪ melancholy music playing]
356
00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:27,481
[speaking indistinctly]
357
00:18:27,565 --> 00:18:29,483
- [Amber] These are the lockers.
- Yeah.
358
00:18:32,069 --> 00:18:34,155
- [shutter clicks]
- Okay, send that to Mom.
359
00:18:34,739 --> 00:18:36,490
All right, I did it.
360
00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:39,118
[Karen] Beebo!
361
00:18:39,201 --> 00:18:41,245
- [audience cheering]
- [whistle blows]
362
00:18:41,829 --> 00:18:43,831
[Mary] He played football. He wrestled.
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00:18:43,914 --> 00:18:45,082
[Karen] Go, Beebo!
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00:18:45,708 --> 00:18:48,210
[Mary] He did track.
He was homecoming king.
365
00:18:48,294 --> 00:18:50,087
- He was voted class clown.
- Whoo-hoo!
366
00:18:50,171 --> 00:18:51,756
[Mary] He was all of the above.
367
00:18:53,382 --> 00:18:54,759
Wasilla's most loved.
368
00:18:54,842 --> 00:18:56,636
- [chattering]
- [♪ music continues]
369
00:18:57,303 --> 00:19:00,139
{\an8}He was incredibly thoughtful,
and he was an intelligent person.
370
00:19:00,222 --> 00:19:02,058
{\an8}I think that that escaped a lot of folks.
371
00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:03,768
[♪ dance music playing]
372
00:19:03,851 --> 00:19:07,188
I think he was what people describe
as a strong Christian.
373
00:19:08,230 --> 00:19:11,275
- [laughing, screaming]
- [♪ melancholy music continues]
374
00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:15,071
Just a poster boy
of what an all-American kid would be.
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00:19:16,405 --> 00:19:18,824
[Pat] He was not the type of person
376
00:19:18,908 --> 00:19:23,704
that we ever thought
would behave like that.
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00:19:23,788 --> 00:19:25,790
[♪ tense music playing]
378
00:19:25,873 --> 00:19:27,375
[Richard] Let me be real clear here.
379
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I do not intend to hurt anyone.
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00:19:29,877 --> 00:19:31,712
I'm just out for some sights.
381
00:19:33,089 --> 00:19:34,507
I do not want to hurt anyone.
382
00:19:34,590 --> 00:19:36,092
So, uh...
383
00:19:36,926 --> 00:19:38,469
No need to fear me.
384
00:19:39,679 --> 00:19:41,889
[Andrew] Okay,
we're just concerned because,
385
00:19:42,807 --> 00:19:44,975
well, it sounds like you shouldn't be
piloting that aircraft.
386
00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:47,061
Is there other people on board?
387
00:19:47,645 --> 00:19:48,729
[Richard] No, no.
388
00:19:48,813 --> 00:19:50,106
I, uh--
389
00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:51,440
I figured
390
00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:52,525
it can't be that hard, right?
391
00:19:52,608 --> 00:19:54,485
So I'd just take it out for a spin.
392
00:19:54,568 --> 00:19:55,903
[Andrew] So it's just you on board?
393
00:19:56,987 --> 00:19:59,073
[Richard] Yes, sir.
I wouldn't want to hurt anyone else.
394
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:06,163
Given like the history in America of 9/11
and hijackings and these other things,
395
00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:11,502
if you were to like walk into a situation
where the only thing that you know
396
00:20:11,585 --> 00:20:15,673
is that there is a person
who has stolen an airplane,
397
00:20:15,756 --> 00:20:19,719
that doesn't necessarily bode well
for that person's assumed character.
398
00:20:20,803 --> 00:20:25,474
[Richard] Hey, you're probably going to
send some some jets out this way, huh?
399
00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:28,018
[Andrew] Well, Rich,
that's not the plan right now,
400
00:20:28,102 --> 00:20:30,020
but can you just tell me
the altitude you're at?
401
00:20:31,147 --> 00:20:33,190
[Richard] Yeah,
I kind of think that's a lie, man.
402
00:20:33,274 --> 00:20:35,234
If I were you,
I'd be sending the jets right away
403
00:20:35,317 --> 00:20:39,238
because, for all you know,
I could be a bad guy.
404
00:20:39,321 --> 00:20:40,573
[♪ music continues]
405
00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:41,949
Well, I kinda am a bad guy.
406
00:20:44,118 --> 00:20:47,246
But he could never be a bad guy.
He was always a good guy.
407
00:20:48,873 --> 00:20:50,708
He had a heart of gold.
408
00:20:51,876 --> 00:20:53,252
[operator 1] Western, Headquarters.
409
00:20:53,335 --> 00:20:56,088
I'm requesting military assistance
on that primary target.
410
00:20:57,089 --> 00:20:58,591
He just made a threat.
411
00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,510
[operator 2]
Yeah, this guy's pretty messed up.
412
00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:04,096
He sounds like a really bad dude here.
413
00:21:05,055 --> 00:21:07,683
{\an8}[operator 3] Western, observe.
And we're scrambling Portland.
414
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:08,768
{\an8}[operator 1] Thank you.
415
00:21:08,851 --> 00:21:10,186
[♪ music continues]
416
00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:11,812
[aircraft dispatcher]
ROCK 41 active air scramble
417
00:21:11,896 --> 00:21:13,105
{\an8}in the [unintelligible].
418
00:21:14,064 --> 00:21:15,691
{\an8}[Colleen] ROCK 41.
Seattle Approach. Roger.
419
00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:17,818
And the Sea-Tac altimeter, 2-9-9-6.
420
00:21:17,902 --> 00:21:21,447
[Colleen] The fighters were going
to be launched off of Portland
421
00:21:21,530 --> 00:21:22,823
no matter what.
422
00:21:22,907 --> 00:21:23,908
It's protocol.
423
00:21:26,702 --> 00:21:28,412
If you're steal a commercial airliner,
424
00:21:28,496 --> 00:21:31,749
there's going to be fighters on your tail
at some point in time.
425
00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:33,501
[bystander 2] What's going on?
426
00:21:33,584 --> 00:21:36,545
We got an airplane circling
our neighborhood with two jets.
427
00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:43,302
But to have fighter jets
blow an American citizen out of the air,
428
00:21:44,220 --> 00:21:45,721
I didn't want that to happen.
429
00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:47,765
{\an8}Nobody wanted that to happen.
430
00:21:48,516 --> 00:21:50,976
{\an8}[news anchor 5] F-15 fighters
scramble from Portland,
431
00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:52,937
{\an8}flying faster than the speed of sound,
432
00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:55,147
{\an8}intercepting Russell south of Seattle.
433
00:21:55,231 --> 00:21:59,902
They are prepared to shoot him down
as controllers try to talk him down.
434
00:22:04,198 --> 00:22:05,533
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
435
00:22:06,575 --> 00:22:09,620
[Karen] I just couldn't fathom...
436
00:22:11,372 --> 00:22:12,456
what he had done.
437
00:22:14,250 --> 00:22:16,836
I don't know why he snapped.
438
00:22:19,171 --> 00:22:21,298
[Colleen]
If he sees the fighters, that's--
439
00:22:21,382 --> 00:22:23,008
obviously going to change
the situation because...
440
00:22:23,092 --> 00:22:24,301
- [operator 1] Sure.
- [Colleen] ...what's he's going to do.
441
00:22:24,385 --> 00:22:26,053
[operator 1] Sure. I've asked the pilot,
442
00:22:26,136 --> 00:22:28,722
the fighters to stay away
from the airplane,
443
00:22:28,806 --> 00:22:29,890
not to scare him.
444
00:22:29,974 --> 00:22:31,725
- [Colleen] Okay.
- [operator 1] So it's mission inspect
445
00:22:31,809 --> 00:22:33,644
- right now.
- [Colleen] Okay.
446
00:22:35,104 --> 00:22:36,814
[jet fighter 2] Headquarters, Western.
We are shadowing.
447
00:22:36,897 --> 00:22:38,315
[beep]
448
00:22:38,399 --> 00:22:40,651
[operator 1] Alright, thank you.
Mission shadow.
449
00:22:47,575 --> 00:22:48,701
Those are not... Oh...
450
00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:51,120
Oh, those are the shoes
I wore at people's wedding.
451
00:22:51,829 --> 00:22:54,456
Do you want to bring this in
and go through it later, Mom,
452
00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:56,250
see if there's anything you want to take?
453
00:22:56,834 --> 00:22:58,836
I put all of this stuff in here...
454
00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:00,504
[Phil] Let me see this.
455
00:23:01,505 --> 00:23:07,261
...when I was cleaning out the house
after the accident to keep it safe.
456
00:23:07,344 --> 00:23:10,014
Oh, here we go. This is it. [sighs]
457
00:23:10,097 --> 00:23:11,515
[Phil] Is that the one? Oh, yeah.
458
00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:12,600
[Karen strains]
459
00:23:17,146 --> 00:23:18,814
- [Phil] There's a bunch of stuff.
- [Karen] I-I... [sighs]
460
00:23:18,898 --> 00:23:21,567
I don't know what I wanna do
with Beebo's stuff.
461
00:23:22,693 --> 00:23:26,030
Repack it and...
But I-I just can't take it with me, Phil.
462
00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:28,240
- Yeah, I know.
- I just can't.
463
00:23:38,167 --> 00:23:42,254
- His varsity letter. Look at that.
- Oh, wow.
464
00:23:42,338 --> 00:23:44,590
Wrestling, track, football.
465
00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:49,219
- I couldn't afford to get a, uh...
- A letterman?
466
00:23:49,303 --> 00:23:50,846
- ...a j... Yeah, the jacket.
- The jacket?
467
00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:52,473
Yeah.
468
00:23:52,556 --> 00:23:54,224
That's okay. We got this.
469
00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:56,435
I said,
"You can always put it on a T-shirt."
470
00:23:56,518 --> 00:23:59,021
- [Phil] It's pretty nice.
- It is.
471
00:24:00,272 --> 00:24:03,359
[Karen] "18 years ago, a beautiful"...
Oh, God, I'm gonna cry.
472
00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:06,779
..."nine pound baby warrior was born."
[chuckles]
473
00:24:07,738 --> 00:24:11,283
"He was named Richard Bryan,
and he brought great joy to his family.
474
00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:16,288
As you write the rest of this story,
always remember you are loved."
475
00:24:17,373 --> 00:24:20,334
[voice trembling] "We are all so proud
of the wonderful young man
476
00:24:20,417 --> 00:24:22,586
that you have grown into." [sniffles]
477
00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:26,674
"You bring such humor
and unpredictability to our lives."
478
00:24:26,757 --> 00:24:27,758
[both chuckle]
479
00:24:27,841 --> 00:24:30,844
Uh, "Go forth
and enjoy all life has to offer."
480
00:24:31,762 --> 00:24:33,764
- And... Ugh.
- Who wrote that?
481
00:24:33,847 --> 00:24:36,558
- I did. [sniffles]
- You did? That's awesome.
482
00:24:36,642 --> 00:24:39,645
- [Karen] Yeah, I'm not just a pretty face.
- [Phil chuckles]
483
00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:43,399
[Andrew] And the gentleman in the Q400,
484
00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:45,484
flying the Dash 8, can you still hear me?
485
00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:50,489
The grounds crewman in the Dash 8,
486
00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:52,449
are you still on this frequency?
Can you still hear me?
487
00:24:55,452 --> 00:24:56,578
[Richard] Yeah. Hey, sorry. I--
488
00:24:56,662 --> 00:24:58,664
I lost you behind the mountain, I think.
489
00:24:58,747 --> 00:25:00,958
I thought you were just being boring.
490
00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:03,669
[Andrew] Okay, I can hear you
loud and clear now.
491
00:25:05,295 --> 00:25:08,340
[Richard] Hey.
Can you get a Q400 expert on,
492
00:25:08,424 --> 00:25:10,676
or just some guy who knows all about it?
493
00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:13,721
[Andrew] Ok, ah.
494
00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:15,472
Nobody here
495
00:25:15,556 --> 00:25:17,016
knows how to fly one of those aircraft,
496
00:25:17,099 --> 00:25:18,851
but we'll see what we can do
497
00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:20,561
and get you in contact with somebody.
498
00:25:21,687 --> 00:25:22,980
What's your plan here?
499
00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:25,232
Are you going to come back to Sea-Tac
and try and land,
500
00:25:25,315 --> 00:25:26,817
or what do you want to do?
501
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,652
[Richard] What do you think I should do?
502
00:25:29,778 --> 00:25:31,238
What do you think I should do, FAA guy?
503
00:25:32,698 --> 00:25:34,867
[Andrew] Well, we're trying to get...
get in contact with somebody
504
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:36,368
who can maybe help you because you said
505
00:25:36,452 --> 00:25:38,954
you're unfamiliar
with how to land that, right?
506
00:25:41,123 --> 00:25:43,834
[Richard] I never really learned
how to land the plane.
507
00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:46,336
I did a lot of research
on like how to start it up
508
00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:48,088
and get it to go.
509
00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:50,632
In a couple of hours, I guess.
510
00:25:50,716 --> 00:25:52,676
But, yeah, I wouldn't know how to land it.
511
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,428
I wasn't really planning on landing it.
512
00:25:58,348 --> 00:26:00,350
[chattering]
513
00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:09,693
[Amber] Beebo graduated high school
kind of our hometown, golden child,
514
00:26:09,777 --> 00:26:14,865
and went off to play football
at a junior college in North Dakota.
515
00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:20,746
Got a scholarship to go play football,
and, uh, go live his dream.
516
00:26:22,915 --> 00:26:26,126
[Chris] That transition
from Wasilla to North Dakota,
517
00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:30,089
I think that's probably where he started
really first kind of considering
518
00:26:30,172 --> 00:26:33,175
his identity and purpose
in, like, more precise terms.
519
00:26:34,384 --> 00:26:37,721
I remember him talking
about how like everyone was drinking,
520
00:26:37,805 --> 00:26:41,016
doing the kind of the typical,
like, early college things,
521
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,435
and he was not participating.
522
00:26:44,728 --> 00:26:47,106
He loved football.
He didn't really like North Dakota.
523
00:26:47,898 --> 00:26:52,069
I think there was a lot of things
that didn't align with his Christianity.
524
00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:54,363
[Chris] He just realized that like,
525
00:26:54,446 --> 00:26:57,783
maybe this football thing isn't the thing
that I should be doing.
526
00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:04,414
After high school,
I ended up going to school down in Oregon,
527
00:27:04,498 --> 00:27:06,834
a small kind of junior college there.
528
00:27:06,917 --> 00:27:09,670
And I said, "Hey, man.
You could come here."
529
00:27:09,753 --> 00:27:12,464
Turned out to be
one of the best things for him
530
00:27:12,548 --> 00:27:13,799
'cause that's where he met Hannah.
531
00:27:14,675 --> 00:27:16,260
[person] Spin her, Beebo. Spin her!
532
00:27:16,343 --> 00:27:18,679
[laughing]
533
00:27:18,762 --> 00:27:21,181
[Karen] He was smitten from day one,
534
00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:24,268
and I do remember him calling me up
and saying,
535
00:27:24,351 --> 00:27:28,188
"Mom, she is authentic for Christ.
536
00:27:31,942 --> 00:27:35,487
She is the real deal. She's everything."
537
00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:38,323
Hannah was perfect for Beebo.
538
00:27:38,407 --> 00:27:42,870
She was really funny.
She was a baker, which spoke to his heart.
539
00:27:42,953 --> 00:27:45,372
[Pat] We all knew the story.
540
00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:48,125
We knew this was the love of his life.
541
00:27:48,208 --> 00:27:53,755
He fought for her, and won her love.
542
00:27:54,756 --> 00:27:58,719
[Karen] Got engaged and married
before he graduated from college.
543
00:27:59,553 --> 00:28:01,096
She was beautiful.
544
00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:05,142
You saw the pictures.
Oh, God. They were just so beautiful.
545
00:28:05,767 --> 00:28:07,477
[Mary] After they got married,
546
00:28:07,561 --> 00:28:11,940
Hannah finished her culinary arts degree,
547
00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:13,483
and had this dream to open a bakery.
548
00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:16,028
[Karen] They found this bakery for sale.
549
00:28:16,111 --> 00:28:19,197
They bought it,
and made it Hannah Marie's bakery.
550
00:28:19,281 --> 00:28:22,409
And it was kind of cute, you know,
the two of them in a bakery.
551
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:26,163
It was their baby.
It really was their baby.
552
00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:30,250
[Phil]
Beebo kind of put everything on hold.
553
00:28:30,334 --> 00:28:31,627
Schooling. His...
554
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,795
Everything just to help her out
and support her,
555
00:28:33,879 --> 00:28:37,215
which was awesome, you know,
that he could do that for her.
556
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:40,761
[Chris] He had a-a degree of optimism
557
00:28:40,844 --> 00:28:44,806
about his future,
and his life and purpose,
558
00:28:44,890 --> 00:28:47,225
even though it wasn't necessarily refined
at that point.
559
00:28:47,309 --> 00:28:49,227
He was distinctly hopeful.
560
00:28:49,311 --> 00:28:52,147
- [wind whipping]
- [chattering]
561
00:28:53,523 --> 00:28:55,525
[plane engine drones]
562
00:28:56,902 --> 00:28:59,529
[Richard] This is probably
like jail time for life, huh?
563
00:29:01,323 --> 00:29:03,617
I mean, I would hope it is.
For a guy like me?
564
00:29:05,786 --> 00:29:07,663
[Andrew] We're not thinking about that.
565
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:11,792
What we're thinking about is how we're
just going to get you on the ground safe
566
00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:13,669
and resolve this situation.
567
00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:14,920
So, uh...
568
00:29:15,545 --> 00:29:17,255
[Richard] I don't know
if I want to return this plane
569
00:29:17,339 --> 00:29:20,384
because I threw up all inside of it.
It's bad.
570
00:29:21,385 --> 00:29:23,345
[Colleen]
Andrew, will he take control instructions?
571
00:29:24,221 --> 00:29:26,181
Just ask him.
"Will you accept control instructions?"
572
00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:29,768
[Richard] Hey, what's your name, FAA guy?
573
00:29:31,061 --> 00:29:33,814
[Andrew] Rich, my name is Andrew. And--
574
00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:37,234
Is there any chance that I can
give you some headings
575
00:29:37,734 --> 00:29:40,112
or some control instructions
to help you out here?
576
00:29:40,946 --> 00:29:42,114
[Richard] Yeah, that's all mumbo jumbo.
577
00:29:42,197 --> 00:29:45,784
I have no idea what all that means.
I wouldn't know how to punch it in.
578
00:29:45,867 --> 00:29:47,536
[Andrew] But if I were to give you
like a heading,
579
00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:48,996
maybe you could look at the compass.
580
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:51,915
If I gave you a heading
that would be what the compass says.
581
00:29:52,541 --> 00:29:55,252
[Richard] Oh, right near the jets?
You're going to take me to the jets?
582
00:29:55,335 --> 00:29:57,129
[Andrew] No, I'm not taking you
to any jets.
583
00:29:57,212 --> 00:29:58,422
I'm actually keeping you away
from aircraft
584
00:29:58,505 --> 00:29:59,715
that are trying to land at Sea-Tac.
585
00:30:01,133 --> 00:30:03,051
[Richard] Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
I don't want to screw with that.
586
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:04,511
I'm glad--
587
00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:06,221
glad you're not
588
00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:07,305
uh...
589
00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:10,100
you know, screwing up everyone else's day
590
00:30:10,684 --> 00:30:12,144
on account of me.
591
00:30:15,564 --> 00:30:17,441
[Colleen]
The only way out where nobody dies is
592
00:30:17,524 --> 00:30:19,609
if he lands the plane successfully.
593
00:30:20,610 --> 00:30:24,197
But we have a... a pilot
with zero experience.
594
00:30:24,281 --> 00:30:26,116
We can't have him land just anywhere.
595
00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:30,537
It has to be a runway
596
00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:34,124
that is long enough and wide enough
597
00:30:34,207 --> 00:30:35,709
for a Dash 8 to land on it.
598
00:30:40,756 --> 00:30:42,924
[Andrew] Okay, Rich. And, instead of
599
00:30:43,008 --> 00:30:44,968
bringing you back to Sea-Tac,
600
00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:50,640
there is the runway
just off your right side in about a mile.
601
00:30:50,724 --> 00:30:51,975
Do you see that?
602
00:30:52,059 --> 00:30:54,352
That's the-- that's McChord Field.
603
00:30:55,437 --> 00:30:57,189
[Richard] Oh man,
those guys would rough me up
604
00:30:57,272 --> 00:30:58,857
if I tried landing there.
605
00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:01,026
They probably got anti-aircraft!
606
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:03,487
[Andrew]
No, they don't have any of that stuff.
607
00:31:04,613 --> 00:31:07,824
We're just trying to find a place
for you to land safely.
608
00:31:07,908 --> 00:31:09,367
[Richard] Not quite ready
to bring it down just yet,
609
00:31:09,451 --> 00:31:11,495
but holy smokes, I gotta--
610
00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:15,373
I gotta stop looking at the fuel
because it's going down quick!
611
00:31:21,338 --> 00:31:23,507
[pilot] And good morning, everybody.
We'd like to welcome you aboard.
612
00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:26,051
We'll do the best we can
to get you on your way down to San Diego,
613
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:27,636
where it's a beautiful 75 degrees.
614
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,729
My mom hasn't been the same since.
615
00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:40,982
Really crushed her.
616
00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:46,863
She's renting her place out,
so she doesn't have a home base anymore.
617
00:31:47,989 --> 00:31:50,784
She just feels like she has
to be on the move all the time.
618
00:31:54,871 --> 00:31:56,081
[Colleen] Okay, the pilot--
619
00:31:56,164 --> 00:31:58,708
The other Horizon pilot is on frequency.
620
00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:02,629
[Andrew] And Rich, here in a second,
621
00:32:02,712 --> 00:32:04,673
there's going to be another pilot
that comes on.
622
00:32:05,549 --> 00:32:08,176
And he's a-- he's a pilot of a Q400.
623
00:32:09,511 --> 00:32:12,013
And he's gonna try and help you out here
a little bit, okay?
624
00:32:14,516 --> 00:32:17,310
[Richard] You are a very calm,
collect voice.
625
00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:19,563
Not saying the wrong things.
626
00:32:19,646 --> 00:32:21,314
I know--
627
00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:23,316
you don't got to
beat around the bush with me though.
628
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,277
I'm not a sensitive kind of guy.
629
00:32:27,487 --> 00:32:28,488
So--
630
00:32:28,572 --> 00:32:30,824
[Bill] Hey Rich,
this is Captain Bill here.
631
00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:33,493
Do you have any plans
on landing the airplane?
632
00:32:36,121 --> 00:32:37,205
[Richard] I mean
633
00:32:37,289 --> 00:32:39,791
I'm kinda enjoying just cruising around.
634
00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:41,877
[Bill] Alright, well.
How fast are you going right now?
635
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,629
I hear the... the speed horn going off.
636
00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:47,507
- [speed horn beeps]
- [Richard] Uh...
637
00:32:47,591 --> 00:32:49,092
Where do I see that at?
638
00:32:49,176 --> 00:32:51,386
[Andrew] Yeah,
he's at 300 knots over the ground.
639
00:32:51,469 --> 00:32:52,470
[Bill] Okay, well,
640
00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:56,975
try not to go any faster than that
because that's hard on the airplane.
641
00:32:57,058 --> 00:32:59,019
We don't want to hurt the airplane.
642
00:32:59,102 --> 00:33:00,395
[Richard] Oh, gotcha.
643
00:33:01,479 --> 00:33:03,607
Hey, pilot guy-- You think--
644
00:33:04,482 --> 00:33:06,234
You think this thing can do a barrel roll?
645
00:33:07,235 --> 00:33:09,863
[Bill] Well, I'd try to figure out
how to use the autopilot first.
646
00:33:10,530 --> 00:33:11,615
[Richard] Boring!
647
00:33:14,284 --> 00:33:15,285
[PA system beeps]
648
00:33:15,368 --> 00:33:17,454
[cabin crew] Please remain seated
with your seat belts fastened
649
00:33:17,537 --> 00:33:18,872
and keep carry-on items stowed
650
00:33:18,955 --> 00:33:20,749
until the captain has
turned the seat belt sign off.
651
00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:23,877
Be careful when opening
the overhead bins to avoid injury.
652
00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:27,214
[Karen] Every year,
I fly down to San Diego,
653
00:33:27,297 --> 00:33:30,258
and pick up Beebo's car
at his sister's house.
654
00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:34,304
It's a trip with no plans.
655
00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:38,183
That's my release, traveling,
getting on the road.
656
00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:41,561
You know, I can get in the car
and go anywhere,
657
00:33:41,645 --> 00:33:43,772
where I know nobody, and be fine.
658
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:54,950
[Karen sighs]
659
00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:59,162
Okay. Let's go.
[inhales heavily] Road trip.
660
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:09,339
[engine starts]
661
00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:14,135
[Karen] This car's name is Sally.
662
00:34:15,011 --> 00:34:20,392
Every year, I take Sally out for, um...
663
00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:23,186
about three months.
664
00:34:24,354 --> 00:34:27,023
And we head east and west
and north and south,
665
00:34:27,107 --> 00:34:28,692
and we visit friends and family,
666
00:34:28,775 --> 00:34:33,446
and it's just a great way for me
to be lost in the...
667
00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:35,448
my thoughts.
668
00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:39,369
And nobody expects anything.
669
00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:45,625
Um, nobody expects you to be strong
when you're sad.
670
00:34:46,668 --> 00:34:48,628
[birds chirp]
671
00:34:49,754 --> 00:34:50,755
[Bill] Rich, are you still there?
672
00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:53,591
[Richard] Yeah. Hey boys.
673
00:34:54,384 --> 00:34:58,513
[Bill] Ok, Rich. Uh, do you have an idea
of how much fuel you have left?
674
00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:00,849
[Richard] Aw, man, I'm sick.
675
00:35:03,268 --> 00:35:04,853
I'm throwing up quite a bit.
676
00:35:06,396 --> 00:35:07,606
Andrew.
677
00:35:07,689 --> 00:35:09,899
I want you to whisper sweet nothings
678
00:35:09,983 --> 00:35:11,026
into my ear.
679
00:35:12,027 --> 00:35:13,570
[Andrew]
Rich, I don't think I can do that for you.
680
00:35:14,696 --> 00:35:16,990
Can you tell me, do you know
how much fuel you have left?
681
00:35:19,701 --> 00:35:20,994
[Richard] Damn it, Andrew!
682
00:35:21,995 --> 00:35:23,580
People's lives are at stake here!
683
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:27,250
[Andrew] Now, Rich, don't--
don't say stuff like that.
684
00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:31,046
[Richard] Nah, I told you I'm not--
I don't want to hurt no one.
685
00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:33,423
I just want you to whisper
sweet nothings into my ear.
686
00:35:34,299 --> 00:35:37,052
[laughing]
687
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:40,764
[Pat] Somewhere in my nephew's life,
something changed.
688
00:35:41,556 --> 00:35:45,143
He went from a fun-loving,
689
00:35:45,894 --> 00:35:48,855
easygoing, happy person
690
00:35:48,938 --> 00:35:51,941
to someone
who felt a lot of pressure in their life.
691
00:35:56,279 --> 00:35:58,531
[Karen]
The bakery was going along really well,
692
00:35:58,615 --> 00:36:00,825
and then, next thing I heard,
693
00:36:00,909 --> 00:36:03,244
they were moving out of Oregon
and heading north.
694
00:36:05,205 --> 00:36:11,503
My sense is that Hannah's family
wanted them closer in Seattle.
695
00:36:13,463 --> 00:36:18,093
[Mary] I asked him once
how successful the bakery was,
696
00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:20,762
and he described it as,
697
00:36:20,845 --> 00:36:24,265
when you do all the math of all the hours
and the hard work that they put in,
698
00:36:24,349 --> 00:36:27,352
they were basically making
both, like, $4 an hour.
699
00:36:27,977 --> 00:36:31,648
I do wonder if because Hannah came
700
00:36:31,731 --> 00:36:34,693
from kind of a traditional family
where, you know, her dad worked,
701
00:36:34,776 --> 00:36:36,861
her mom homeschooled the girls,
702
00:36:36,945 --> 00:36:40,657
I think that that was maybe
the expectation of what they wanted
703
00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:43,410
for their daughter.
704
00:36:43,493 --> 00:36:46,746
[Amber]
Hannah's family was different than ours.
705
00:36:46,830 --> 00:36:52,001
Married couple still,
very, very religious, pretty wealthy.
706
00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:56,881
[Karen] Hannah's father wanted Beebo
to get a real job.
707
00:36:56,965 --> 00:37:01,553
He wanted Beebo to have
the perfect middle class family.
708
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:04,139
The picket fence, you know.
709
00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:05,807
But that was never important to Beebo.
710
00:37:07,058 --> 00:37:13,398
I think that really kind of it was like
the first stumbling block along the way.
711
00:37:15,275 --> 00:37:17,444
[Karen]
Beebo did not wanna move to Seattle.
712
00:37:17,527 --> 00:37:18,862
He was not a big city boy.
713
00:37:19,529 --> 00:37:23,616
I'm sure it was tough for him, you know,
starting over in a big city.
714
00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:27,245
Beebo was kinda, "Well, what do I do now?"
715
00:37:29,622 --> 00:37:31,541
[Richard] Hey, FAA guy, Andrew, you on?
716
00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:33,668
[Andrew] Yeah, I'm still here, Rich.
717
00:37:34,335 --> 00:37:35,420
Rich, can you hear me?
718
00:37:35,503 --> 00:37:36,629
[Richard] How'd you get your job?
719
00:37:37,881 --> 00:37:39,215
[Andrew] You asked how I got my job?
720
00:37:39,299 --> 00:37:41,217
I just applied for it online.
721
00:37:42,135 --> 00:37:44,137
[Richard] No way, straight off the street?
722
00:37:44,220 --> 00:37:46,431
[Andrew]
Well, I had some experience prior.
723
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,850
[Richard] Right.
Yeah, what kind of experience?
724
00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:50,935
[Andrew] Just military service.
725
00:37:51,019 --> 00:37:52,645
[Richard] Hey, thanks for your service.
726
00:37:52,729 --> 00:37:53,855
[Andrew] Thank you.
727
00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:56,733
[Richard] I was too fat.
Well, yeah, I'm too fat to join.
728
00:37:56,816 --> 00:38:00,236
I was thinking about it
and probably a good thing I didn't.
729
00:38:01,738 --> 00:38:04,741
[Karen] He went to apply for the military.
730
00:38:04,824 --> 00:38:07,452
But he couldn't get in
because of his weight.
731
00:38:08,495 --> 00:38:11,247
He went to apply for police,
732
00:38:11,331 --> 00:38:14,250
but he didn't... [chuckles]
...pass the practical.
733
00:38:14,334 --> 00:38:16,336
I said, "Why... How did you not pass that?"
734
00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:18,171
And he goes, well, let's just say
735
00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:23,259
the police and I have different opinions
on how we treat people.
736
00:38:25,345 --> 00:38:27,972
So he said, "Well, I'm gonna get a job
with an airline."
737
00:38:29,224 --> 00:38:32,393
So he could do trips up to Alaska.
738
00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:36,648
That was Beebo's dream.
He wanted to come home.
739
00:38:38,483 --> 00:38:41,319
So Beebo took the job with Horizon.
740
00:38:42,862 --> 00:38:46,741
[Karen] As far as I know,
he wears a little yellow vest and, uh...
741
00:38:47,450 --> 00:38:49,744
[laughs] He, um...
742
00:38:50,703 --> 00:38:54,999
He receives luggage,
he sends it on its way.
743
00:38:55,083 --> 00:38:59,504
He does the, um...
You know, leads the planes in and out.
744
00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:03,675
He sent me the video
of him driving the plane
745
00:39:03,758 --> 00:39:06,678
over to the repair spot or whatever.
746
00:39:07,303 --> 00:39:10,014
[chuckling] He goes,
"I'm taking the plane for a ride."
747
00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:11,683
[♪ jovial music playing]
748
00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:15,228
[Richard] Hi, I'm Beebo Russell,
and I'm a ground-service agent.
749
00:39:15,311 --> 00:39:17,897
That means I lift a lot of bags.
750
00:39:17,981 --> 00:39:19,732
Like, a lot of bags.
751
00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:22,735
So many bags.
752
00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:24,237
Look at all them bags.
753
00:39:24,737 --> 00:39:26,573
Ooh, a purple one.
754
00:39:28,575 --> 00:39:31,369
I usually have to work outside in this.
755
00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:34,831
But it allows me
to do some pretty cool things too.
756
00:39:35,456 --> 00:39:38,459
[Phil] I remember him telling me
that the reason he took the job was
757
00:39:38,543 --> 00:39:40,295
for the travel benefit.
758
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,922
And he really... He really dug that.
759
00:39:43,006 --> 00:39:45,675
A little sheep herding in Ireland.
760
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:50,889
[sheep bleat]
761
00:39:50,972 --> 00:39:54,976
{\an8}[Karen] He flew Hannah,
and they went to Ireland,
762
00:39:55,059 --> 00:39:57,437
and-and, uh, France, and the Faroes.
763
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,606
And I think they traveled well together.
764
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:04,903
Beebo wanted to have fun in life.
765
00:40:04,986 --> 00:40:07,447
And Hannah was good with that.
766
00:40:08,990 --> 00:40:14,579
They said at one point
that he had used, like, 170 trips
767
00:40:15,705 --> 00:40:17,957
in the three years he was there.
768
00:40:18,041 --> 00:40:20,168
He and I would, um, compete
with each other,
769
00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:22,837
because I was flying on his perks.
770
00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:24,672
Pushing rocks, Las Vegas.
771
00:40:25,340 --> 00:40:27,216
[Chris]
One of the things that he did for me,
772
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:32,555
I was interviewing for medical schools
and I didn't have any money left.
773
00:40:33,473 --> 00:40:37,936
And he gave me
a bunch of his, like, family tickets,
774
00:40:38,019 --> 00:40:40,647
so I could interview,
and I did this, like, really big loop.
775
00:40:40,730 --> 00:40:43,358
And there's, like, no way
I would've been able to afford that.
776
00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:48,196
[Richard] Most importantly,
I get to visit those I love most.
777
00:40:48,863 --> 00:40:50,573
It evens out in the end.
778
00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:52,784
[♪ jovial music ends]
779
00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:54,744
He... He liked his job.
780
00:40:55,495 --> 00:40:56,579
Really did...
781
00:40:58,206 --> 00:40:59,332
at first.
782
00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:02,460
[♪ melancholy music playing]
783
00:41:03,127 --> 00:41:04,754
[Richard] Hi, my name's Beebo Russell,
784
00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:07,465
and today, I will be interviewing
my fellow employees
785
00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:10,593
about their work and travel life
as a ground-service agent.
786
00:41:11,094 --> 00:41:13,346
Do you like working
as a ground-service agent?
787
00:41:13,429 --> 00:41:15,014
Why or why not?
788
00:41:15,098 --> 00:41:16,724
[coworker 1] I do and I don't.
789
00:41:16,808 --> 00:41:18,309
One of the good things
about working here is
790
00:41:18,393 --> 00:41:19,686
there's good people that work here,
791
00:41:19,769 --> 00:41:21,729
and one of the bad things
about working here is
792
00:41:21,813 --> 00:41:23,523
there's really bad people that work here.
793
00:41:24,148 --> 00:41:27,443
[coworker 2] I enjoy the flexibility
of the schedule and the flight benefits.
794
00:41:27,527 --> 00:41:29,237
I do not enjoy management.
795
00:41:30,238 --> 00:41:31,322
[Richard] Agreed.
796
00:41:31,406 --> 00:41:33,282
[♪ melancholy piano playing]
797
00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:40,206
[Andreas]
A ground-service agent's job is hard work.
798
00:41:40,957 --> 00:41:46,045
Working in hot weather in the summertime.
And having the cold season.
799
00:41:47,338 --> 00:41:49,507
Working 12 flights a day.
800
00:41:49,590 --> 00:41:53,011
We're understaffed, underpaid, overworked.
801
00:41:55,930 --> 00:41:59,934
But Richard,
I've never really seen him mad.
802
00:42:00,018 --> 00:42:02,228
You know, I've never seen him frustrated.
803
00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:09,485
We had at least 50 people
in that break room.
804
00:42:10,278 --> 00:42:14,032
But in the midst of everyone talking,
he's in the corner reading a book.
805
00:42:16,409 --> 00:42:20,038
He was really quiet
and-and stayed to himself.
806
00:42:20,997 --> 00:42:22,373
And I think he was just trying
807
00:42:22,457 --> 00:42:25,668
to keep that persona
of professionalism at the job,
808
00:42:25,752 --> 00:42:28,087
because he was trying to move up.
809
00:42:28,171 --> 00:42:29,756
He was serious about it.
810
00:42:33,176 --> 00:42:34,635
He was trying to better himself
811
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:39,057
to make more money,
to provide for his wife, to be a provider.
812
00:42:43,728 --> 00:42:46,314
[Chris] I think one of the narratives
that we're given
813
00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:50,526
definitely within, like, a lot
of traditional Christian institutions is,
814
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:54,030
that as men, you must provide
for your family
815
00:42:54,113 --> 00:42:56,449
in these very specific ways.
816
00:42:56,532 --> 00:43:00,036
And if you're not doing that
abundantly economically,
817
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:03,790
then somehow you are, uh, less than.
818
00:43:13,049 --> 00:43:16,094
[Danny] It was the end of the third year
when I started to notice
819
00:43:16,177 --> 00:43:19,806
that the taste of the job was
a little bit more bitter for him.
820
00:43:23,976 --> 00:43:26,646
The longer he worked there,
I knew he wasn't happy there.
821
00:43:26,729 --> 00:43:28,731
[angle grinder whizzes]
822
00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:35,488
It's a physical job, repetitive motion,
which is really tough on your body.
823
00:43:35,571 --> 00:43:37,031
[welding torch sizzles]
824
00:43:37,824 --> 00:43:42,370
He said they worked long hours.
They didn't really treat him that good.
825
00:43:43,496 --> 00:43:45,248
Pay wasn't very good.
826
00:43:46,207 --> 00:43:50,086
So I think the job wasn't worth
the travel benefits anymore, you know.
827
00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:53,631
[♪ melancholy music ends]
828
00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:57,176
[Andreas] They did not treat us
with dignity and respect.
829
00:43:59,262 --> 00:44:01,973
Some of the pilots would call us
"monkeys in the tug."
830
00:44:03,099 --> 00:44:06,352
And then we're like,
"Did he just really just call us that?"
831
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:09,772
Once he was there long enough,
he started to see the separation
832
00:44:09,856 --> 00:44:13,860
between the pilots and the air crew,
and those on the ground.
833
00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:16,737
He would hear the chatter
over his headset.
834
00:44:17,363 --> 00:44:20,825
They would call them "ramp rats,"
and things like that.
835
00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:23,161
It made him feel like crap.
836
00:44:24,370 --> 00:44:27,456
We would tell our supervisors.
They wouldn't do nothing about it.
837
00:44:29,834 --> 00:44:32,086
[Andrew] What were you thinking?
You thinking you want to try and land?
838
00:44:35,631 --> 00:44:38,342
[Richard]
Hey, I'll go on record for saying,
839
00:44:38,926 --> 00:44:40,553
you know, if you asked me why I did it,
840
00:44:41,179 --> 00:44:42,722
it's probably because...
841
00:44:44,182 --> 00:44:45,266
probably because
842
00:44:45,349 --> 00:44:47,059
not making minimum wage.
843
00:44:47,143 --> 00:44:49,061
We'll chalk it up to that.
844
00:44:49,145 --> 00:44:51,147
Maybe that'll grease the gears
845
00:44:51,230 --> 00:44:52,732
a little bit with the higher ups?
846
00:44:52,815 --> 00:44:53,816
Maybe--
847
00:44:55,401 --> 00:44:56,569
Yeah.
848
00:44:56,652 --> 00:44:59,947
[Colleen]
The minimum wage statement got me nervous.
849
00:45:00,990 --> 00:45:03,117
He sounded disgruntled.
850
00:45:03,826 --> 00:45:08,080
I was looking
at the airport radar display thinking,
851
00:45:08,164 --> 00:45:12,335
"Oh, my goodness, all these airplanes
sitting here filled with fuel,
852
00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:15,463
and if Richard turns around
and decides to come back
853
00:45:15,546 --> 00:45:19,133
and land on top of one of them,
it's gonna explode the whole airport."
854
00:45:25,556 --> 00:45:28,309
[Andreas] So minimum wage in Seattle
was $16 an hour,
855
00:45:28,935 --> 00:45:30,853
but we wasn't getting that.
856
00:45:32,813 --> 00:45:35,316
The pay was $12.75 an hour.
857
00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:41,405
You can't live off of 12.75 an hour.
858
00:45:42,782 --> 00:45:45,576
We're like, "How could this be legal?"
859
00:45:47,536 --> 00:45:49,080
The first excuse was,
860
00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:53,376
"Well, we're a smaller airline.
We're not really making enough money."
861
00:45:53,459 --> 00:45:55,920
But then, we're like,
"Well, when we look at our numbers,
862
00:45:56,003 --> 00:45:57,964
we're making a lot of money."
863
00:46:01,050 --> 00:46:06,097
He was definitely vocal
about how ridiculous it was
864
00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:09,267
that that company was able to pay less
than minimum wage.
865
00:46:11,269 --> 00:46:13,271
[Andreas]
They didn't like us talking about it.
866
00:46:14,063 --> 00:46:15,773
They didn't want to hear us.
867
00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:19,527
But in the break room,
we talked about our pay
868
00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:22,071
and everyone was like, "Eventually,
someone's going to do something
869
00:46:22,154 --> 00:46:23,698
that's going to be dangerous.
870
00:46:24,615 --> 00:46:26,701
Something that's gonna
get their attention.
871
00:46:26,784 --> 00:46:30,329
So not talking,
someone's gonna take action."
872
00:46:33,833 --> 00:46:35,251
[door closes]
873
00:46:37,586 --> 00:46:39,088
[Andrew] Alright. What we're gonna do is
874
00:46:39,171 --> 00:46:41,882
we're gonna keep him
in non-populated areas like the vector.
875
00:46:41,966 --> 00:46:43,134
Keep him over the Sound.
876
00:46:43,801 --> 00:46:44,885
[Colleen] Okay.
877
00:46:45,928 --> 00:46:47,638
[Colleen] Time was ticking,
878
00:46:47,722 --> 00:46:51,475
and the fuel was just running out,
and running out, and running out.
879
00:46:52,059 --> 00:46:53,352
[Bill] Hey, Rich.
880
00:46:53,436 --> 00:46:54,979
How do you feel about just flying over
881
00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:56,439
Puget Sound for a while?
882
00:46:58,566 --> 00:47:00,776
[Richard] That'd be a good place
to shoot me down, huh?
883
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:03,446
[Bill] Well, it'd be a soft place to land.
884
00:47:04,447 --> 00:47:05,448
[Richard] Uh...
885
00:47:05,531 --> 00:47:07,283
I wouldn't want to drown.
886
00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:11,078
[Bill] Everybody's out sailing tonight.
887
00:47:11,162 --> 00:47:13,414
There'll be a million sailboats
to pick you up.
888
00:47:14,123 --> 00:47:15,124
[Richard grunts]
889
00:47:15,207 --> 00:47:16,542
That sounds nice,
890
00:47:16,625 --> 00:47:17,835
but I don't think a sailboat would
891
00:47:17,918 --> 00:47:19,295
get to me before
892
00:47:19,378 --> 00:47:20,671
the guys with the guns.
893
00:47:21,922 --> 00:47:24,133
[Andrew] Well, there's plenty of
life jackets on that aircraft,
894
00:47:24,216 --> 00:47:26,469
so you wouldn't have to
worry about having to swim.
895
00:47:29,013 --> 00:47:31,057
[Richard]
You think if I land this successfully,
896
00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:33,768
Alaska will give me a job as a pilot?
897
00:47:33,851 --> 00:47:34,852
[Bill] Uh...
898
00:47:34,935 --> 00:47:37,021
You know, I think they would give you
a job doing anything
899
00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:38,564
if you could pull this off.
900
00:47:38,647 --> 00:47:40,024
[Richard] Yeah, right!
901
00:47:42,109 --> 00:47:44,111
Nah, I'm a white guy.
902
00:47:51,243 --> 00:47:53,245
Yeah, and there it is.
903
00:47:53,329 --> 00:47:54,997
There's the, uh...
904
00:47:57,541 --> 00:47:59,460
"The white guy."
905
00:47:59,543 --> 00:48:01,545
The white guy line that's been...
906
00:48:06,050 --> 00:48:07,093
[sighs]
907
00:48:07,176 --> 00:48:09,512
[Richard] Sorry, we won't get political.
908
00:48:09,595 --> 00:48:12,264
[Bill] Yeah, we don't talk about
religion and politics on the flight deck.
909
00:48:13,307 --> 00:48:14,308
[Richard] Yeah.
910
00:48:21,023 --> 00:48:22,108
Um...
911
00:48:25,111 --> 00:48:26,112
[sniffles]
912
00:48:28,364 --> 00:48:29,949
Yeah, um... [sighs]
913
00:48:31,450 --> 00:48:33,786
[producer] Is this hard to talk about for...
914
00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:37,456
I mean, it's a little bit hard.
915
00:48:38,707 --> 00:48:40,418
[sighs] Oh, boy. Why am I...
916
00:48:40,501 --> 00:48:42,795
I need to stop and think about it.
[stammers]
917
00:48:42,878 --> 00:48:44,839
But we're still rolling, right?
918
00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:46,298
- [producer] Yeah.
- Okay.
919
00:48:47,716 --> 00:48:49,093
- Could we cut the cameras?
- [producer] Yeah.
920
00:48:53,180 --> 00:48:55,516
- [heavy breathing]
- [dogs panting]
921
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,437
[Phil] Especially being a white man,
922
00:49:00,271 --> 00:49:03,232
I feel like if I say anything,
923
00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:07,278
it's gonna come off
as, like, white privilege,
924
00:49:07,361 --> 00:49:09,280
or I don't know.
925
00:49:10,197 --> 00:49:14,660
[chuckles] I just don't wanna
get put in a box, you know,
926
00:49:14,743 --> 00:49:18,539
'cause it's all these boxes
people are getting put in.
927
00:49:20,749 --> 00:49:22,793
[Andreas] You gotta address
the elephant in the room.
928
00:49:24,086 --> 00:49:26,547
It definitely sounds like racism to say,
929
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:28,466
"I didn't get the job because I...
'cause I'm white."
930
00:49:31,594 --> 00:49:34,013
White people have a better chance
of getting a promotion
931
00:49:34,096 --> 00:49:35,764
than an African American.
932
00:49:37,057 --> 00:49:39,226
You just gotta be real about it.
933
00:49:40,978 --> 00:49:44,190
But I've been Black for a long time...
[chuckling] ...all my life...
934
00:49:44,273 --> 00:49:47,776
[normal] ...so I know for a fact
that he was not racist.
935
00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:51,071
I never heard him
make any kind of complaints
936
00:49:51,155 --> 00:49:53,908
about him being a white guy,
937
00:49:53,991 --> 00:49:56,368
so that really surprised me.
938
00:49:57,328 --> 00:50:00,623
[Andreas] People are gonna
"conspiracize" so many different ways,
939
00:50:00,706 --> 00:50:03,083
but you gotta listen to everything,
940
00:50:03,167 --> 00:50:05,252
listen to every single thing.
941
00:50:05,336 --> 00:50:08,130
"Okay, I heard that part,
but what was he saying before then?"
942
00:50:10,466 --> 00:50:15,221
He was saying someone else's words
back to us on the recording.
943
00:50:15,304 --> 00:50:19,517
He was letting people know
what was said to him.
944
00:50:20,184 --> 00:50:24,188
It's tough to try and... try and pinpoint,
945
00:50:25,189 --> 00:50:26,774
you know, what happened.
946
00:50:26,857 --> 00:50:31,820
[gunshots]
947
00:50:32,571 --> 00:50:35,908
[Danny] Somewhere around the third,
into the fourth years,
948
00:50:35,991 --> 00:50:40,996
he had talked with his supervisor,
"Okay, I'm in a dead-end spot.
949
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,416
I wanna move up.
It's not happening as quickly.
950
00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:47,378
How can I..." You know,
"How can I make this move along?"
951
00:50:47,461 --> 00:50:49,672
And one of the things
that they spoke about was
952
00:50:49,755 --> 00:50:54,635
having a college degree looks really good
and it's one way to set you apart.
953
00:50:59,473 --> 00:51:03,727
[Phil] So he was doing night classes
trying to finish up his first degree.
954
00:51:04,353 --> 00:51:06,105
He was starting to go to business school,
955
00:51:06,188 --> 00:51:09,650
'cause he wanted to get, like,
a management job with Horizon
956
00:51:09,733 --> 00:51:11,360
or move higher up.
957
00:51:12,152 --> 00:51:15,698
And you know, school's a full-time job
on top of a full-time job.
958
00:51:16,240 --> 00:51:19,159
He did everything
he thought he was supposed to do.
959
00:51:19,243 --> 00:51:23,038
Went to school, got the qualification,
and still got shot down.
960
00:51:23,122 --> 00:51:24,123
[gunshot]
961
00:51:27,626 --> 00:51:29,420
[Danny] His supervisor told him
962
00:51:29,503 --> 00:51:32,923
he's not going to get that job
as a white guy.
963
00:51:33,465 --> 00:51:34,883
[gun clip clicks]
964
00:51:36,677 --> 00:51:40,389
But Beebo's skin color had nothing to do
965
00:51:40,472 --> 00:51:42,850
with him not getting that job.
966
00:51:43,684 --> 00:51:47,646
Because the person who did
get that job was white. [chuckles] So...
967
00:51:52,860 --> 00:51:54,903
[Andreas] I think it's divide and conquer.
968
00:51:54,987 --> 00:51:58,490
They wanted him to be angry.
969
00:51:59,283 --> 00:52:01,827
They wanted division,
so that we could not come together
970
00:52:01,910 --> 00:52:06,123
and actually get something going,
because we were not covered by a union.
971
00:52:06,206 --> 00:52:10,252
And if they kept us bickering
against each other... [chuckles]
972
00:52:10,336 --> 00:52:11,670
...that never could happen.
973
00:52:13,672 --> 00:52:16,467
[Karen]
It wasn't because that he was a white man.
974
00:52:16,550 --> 00:52:18,677
That's not why he didn't get the job.
975
00:52:18,761 --> 00:52:20,512
[car engine humming]
976
00:52:20,596 --> 00:52:23,599
He didn't get the job
because of other things.
977
00:52:24,433 --> 00:52:26,268
I think the reason why he wasn't hired is
978
00:52:26,352 --> 00:52:29,104
'cause he wasn't
the right kind of a white.
979
00:52:30,898 --> 00:52:33,942
And drawing back
to the, "I'm just a white guy."
980
00:52:34,693 --> 00:52:38,238
Well, "Just a white guy." Okay.
Well, what kind of white guy are you?
981
00:52:38,322 --> 00:52:43,118
Do you come from a wealthy background?
Does your family have stature?
982
00:52:46,664 --> 00:52:48,582
If you grow up with money,
983
00:52:48,666 --> 00:52:53,003
you're definitely gonna have
doors open for you
984
00:52:53,087 --> 00:52:54,463
that normally wouldn't open.
985
00:52:59,009 --> 00:53:01,220
White does not wash away poor.
986
00:53:03,263 --> 00:53:07,184
He did not fit that mold that they wanted.
987
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:15,234
Richard, I believe, did not get the job
because he was considered white trash.
988
00:53:15,317 --> 00:53:18,278
Beebo got fucked by the...
just the way things are.
989
00:53:20,531 --> 00:53:24,284
[Phil] He's getting this pressure
that he is a man, he's a provider,
990
00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:28,414
he should, you know,
be making so much a year.
991
00:53:28,497 --> 00:53:31,750
But then, at the same time,
when he's trying to make advancements,
992
00:53:31,834 --> 00:53:33,544
he's running into these roadblocks.
993
00:53:35,212 --> 00:53:39,133
I see how he could've felt,
like, just every turn,
994
00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:42,761
there was an obstacle and a setback.
995
00:53:46,140 --> 00:53:50,978
All of these things combined
just are creating the perfect storm.
996
00:53:51,979 --> 00:53:55,357
[plane engines drone]
997
00:53:56,233 --> 00:53:58,736
[Andrew] Now just--
just off your right and behind you,
998
00:53:58,819 --> 00:54:00,320
there is another aircraft.
999
00:54:00,404 --> 00:54:02,197
Would you be willing to talk to them
1000
00:54:02,281 --> 00:54:03,615
if they're on the frequency
1001
00:54:03,699 --> 00:54:05,075
and maybe they can help you land?
1002
00:54:06,994 --> 00:54:07,995
[Richard] Um.
1003
00:54:09,538 --> 00:54:12,124
Sure. I mean, I'm always down
to talk to people.
1004
00:54:12,207 --> 00:54:13,500
Uh...
1005
00:54:14,168 --> 00:54:16,044
I'm super thirsty though.
1006
00:54:16,545 --> 00:54:18,547
I threw up pretty much everything I had,
1007
00:54:19,131 --> 00:54:22,968
so I kinda gotta go in the back
and get some water.
1008
00:54:23,051 --> 00:54:25,345
[Andrew] No, no, no, no.
Rich, if you could just stay in the seat,
1009
00:54:25,429 --> 00:54:28,599
stay in the cockpit
and stay with me on the radio, please.
1010
00:54:29,391 --> 00:54:31,602
[Richard] Yeah, I already did it once,
it's cool.
1011
00:54:32,561 --> 00:54:33,687
But I just--
1012
00:54:33,771 --> 00:54:36,023
I got to step on my throw up,
that's disgusting.
1013
00:54:37,608 --> 00:54:38,692
One sec.
1014
00:54:49,661 --> 00:54:52,915
[Bill] Hey, Rich. This is Captain Bill
here. We're still listening.
1015
00:54:52,998 --> 00:54:54,833
My airplane's doing just fine.
1016
00:54:54,917 --> 00:54:56,168
How's yours?
1017
00:54:56,251 --> 00:54:57,669
[Andrew] He just stepped out for a second.
1018
00:54:57,753 --> 00:54:59,630
He'll be right back on.
1019
00:55:01,048 --> 00:55:02,633
[Bill] Okay.
1020
00:55:02,716 --> 00:55:06,929
[creaking]
1021
00:55:20,817 --> 00:55:21,818
[Richard] Alright, I'm back.
1022
00:55:23,695 --> 00:55:25,739
[Andrew] All right, Rich. Welcome back.
1023
00:55:25,822 --> 00:55:28,951
So, did you give any extra thought
as to what you want to do?
1024
00:55:29,034 --> 00:55:30,452
Do you want to try and land at McChord?
1025
00:55:30,536 --> 00:55:32,746
Or were you thinking about on the water?
1026
00:55:32,829 --> 00:55:34,289
Or what are you thinking?
1027
00:55:34,373 --> 00:55:36,625
[Richard]
I kinda fly by the set of my pants.
1028
00:55:37,709 --> 00:55:38,877
Pun intended.
1029
00:55:40,671 --> 00:55:42,339
I'm not quite sure what I want to do yet.
1030
00:55:42,422 --> 00:55:44,591
I do want to see if I can land.
1031
00:55:44,675 --> 00:55:47,094
That'd be cool, but
1032
00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:49,805
I don't feel like living anymore, so...
1033
00:55:49,888 --> 00:55:51,557
- [gasps, stammers]
- ...that's kind of the problem
1034
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,225
that I'm dealing with.
1035
00:55:53,308 --> 00:55:54,893
I've never heard that.
1036
00:55:58,105 --> 00:56:02,109
Uh... I've never heard him say that.
1037
00:56:08,240 --> 00:56:11,577
Yeah, maybe I do need a minute. [chuckles]
So sorry.
1038
00:56:15,789 --> 00:56:16,790
[clicks tongue]
1039
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,169
"I don't feel like living anymore."
1040
00:56:21,253 --> 00:56:24,381
That's the first time I've heard that.
1041
00:56:29,094 --> 00:56:30,762
[Richard] I don't want to deal
with the repercussions.
1042
00:56:32,931 --> 00:56:34,683
It's just kind of easy to just
1043
00:56:34,766 --> 00:56:36,727
nose down, close my eyes.
1044
00:56:36,810 --> 00:56:37,811
You know?
1045
00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:41,106
Sad, but kind of not either.
1046
00:56:43,817 --> 00:56:44,818
[Colleen] Okay.
1047
00:56:46,737 --> 00:56:48,447
He's just talking about doing a nose dive.
1048
00:56:52,701 --> 00:56:54,786
[Andrew] Well, Rich, just let you said,
1049
00:56:54,870 --> 00:56:56,121
you don't want to hurt anybody,
1050
00:56:56,204 --> 00:56:57,873
and we don't want
to see you get hurt either.
1051
00:57:01,418 --> 00:57:04,546
[Richard] Hey, where are the jets at?
I want to see those guys flying around.
1052
00:57:06,214 --> 00:57:08,675
[Colleen] ROCK 41,
do you want vectors for the intercept?
1053
00:57:09,509 --> 00:57:12,512
[ROCK 41] ROCK 41, affirmative.
Confirm altitude 2995.
1054
00:57:19,603 --> 00:57:21,647
I'm his mom. I should've known.
1055
00:57:22,648 --> 00:57:23,649
[sniffles]
1056
00:57:25,359 --> 00:57:28,070
[Richard] Hey, I want the coordinates
of that orca with the...
1057
00:57:28,153 --> 00:57:30,530
you know the mama orca, with the baby?
1058
00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:32,658
I want to go see that guy.
1059
00:57:33,617 --> 00:57:36,244
[Andrew] Hey. Hey Rich.
How much fuel you got left on there?
1060
00:57:37,412 --> 00:57:38,830
[Richard] Oh, man, not enough.
1061
00:57:38,914 --> 00:57:40,248
Not enough to get by,
1062
00:57:41,041 --> 00:57:42,793
like, uh, 760--
1063
00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:44,127
760 pounds.
1064
00:57:44,211 --> 00:57:45,837
[Andrew] Okay, Rich. Thank you.
1065
00:57:47,714 --> 00:57:50,008
The last report we got from Horizon was
1066
00:57:50,092 --> 00:57:53,220
750 pounds would've lasted him 15 minutes.
1067
00:57:53,303 --> 00:57:54,304
[Colleen] Roger.
1068
00:57:54,388 --> 00:57:55,972
[Andrew] Western. Headquarters.
1069
00:57:56,056 --> 00:57:57,057
[air traffic controller] Western.
1070
00:57:57,641 --> 00:57:59,601
[Andrew] Equates to 15 minutes of fuel.
1071
00:58:00,686 --> 00:58:01,895
[air traffic controller] Western.
1072
00:58:06,983 --> 00:58:08,610
[Richard] Man, have you been
to the Olympics?
1073
00:58:08,694 --> 00:58:10,195
These guys are gorgeous.
1074
00:58:10,278 --> 00:58:11,655
Holy smokes!
1075
00:58:11,738 --> 00:58:12,906
[Andrew] Yeah, I have been out there.
1076
00:58:12,989 --> 00:58:14,116
It's--
1077
00:58:14,199 --> 00:58:15,617
It's always a nice drive.
1078
00:58:17,244 --> 00:58:19,705
[ROCK 41] Hey, Rich. This is ROCK 41.
Man, how are you doing?
1079
00:58:19,788 --> 00:58:21,248
How about we had out to the west here,
1080
00:58:21,331 --> 00:58:23,667
get away from the terrain and stuff.
1081
00:58:24,584 --> 00:58:27,421
[Richard] Why? You got some property
out here you're worried about?
1082
00:58:31,007 --> 00:58:34,720
[Phil] Never ever would've thought
that he was...
1083
00:58:36,972 --> 00:58:38,849
unhappy with his life.
1084
00:58:39,683 --> 00:58:44,062
You know, not more unhappy
than, you know, normal.
1085
00:58:45,856 --> 00:58:48,275
I'm pretty, pretty guilty of it too.
1086
00:58:48,358 --> 00:58:52,154
I don't openly share my feelings
with anybody.
1087
00:58:52,237 --> 00:58:56,700
Um... Maybe my wife, you know,
I-I'll talk to her.
1088
00:58:56,783 --> 00:58:59,035
But my other guy friends, I'm not gonna
1089
00:58:59,953 --> 00:59:02,330
tell them that I'm feeling sad
or anything like that,
1090
00:59:02,414 --> 00:59:04,166
because then I'll be a little pussy.
1091
00:59:10,589 --> 00:59:12,132
[Pat] It's gone down through the ages.
1092
00:59:12,215 --> 00:59:15,635
Men aren't supposed to be weak.
They're supposed to be the strong ones.
1093
00:59:15,719 --> 00:59:21,099
They're supposed to be the ones
that, um, are taking care of everything.
1094
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,145
[Chris] It becomes an abyss.
1095
00:59:25,937 --> 00:59:29,524
And you're expected
to pull yourself from the pit
1096
00:59:29,608 --> 00:59:32,402
when you feel like you can talk
to nobody about it.
1097
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,323
[Danny] How are we even supposed
to entertain the idea of counseling?
1098
00:59:36,406 --> 00:59:39,493
I mean, that-that's just... it's a foreign...
1099
00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:42,287
It doesn't even make sense.
It doesn't even register.
1100
00:59:43,038 --> 00:59:45,040
Taking the time to see a counselor,
1101
00:59:45,123 --> 00:59:47,501
like, I don't even have time
to go see the dentist.
1102
00:59:47,584 --> 00:59:49,002
Like, I mean...
1103
00:59:49,085 --> 00:59:51,296
[tools clatter]
1104
00:59:51,379 --> 00:59:54,716
...if the truck's broken,
I know exactly what it takes to fix it.
1105
00:59:55,967 --> 00:59:58,929
If I'm having issues inside,
I don't even know where to begin.
1106
01:00:01,264 --> 01:00:03,308
And in Beebo's situation,
1107
01:00:03,391 --> 01:00:06,937
I think for him to seek help, it would be...
[inhales deeply]
1108
01:00:08,104 --> 01:00:10,941
He would think of it in terms of,
"Am I man enough?"
1109
01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:16,613
And also, "How are the people
that depend on me gonna look at me
1110
01:00:16,696 --> 01:00:22,118
if I'm showing this kind of, you know...
if-if I'm having these kinds of problems."
1111
01:00:23,245 --> 01:00:24,246
Come on.
1112
01:00:25,163 --> 01:00:27,415
[sighs] Go ahead and use that
for your knees.
1113
01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:31,336
Okay. Yeah.
1114
01:00:32,254 --> 01:00:34,256
[wrench grinding]
1115
01:00:37,008 --> 01:00:39,469
[softly] Go ahead,
finish getting that off with your finger.
1116
01:00:39,553 --> 01:00:40,554
[grinding continues]
1117
01:00:41,471 --> 01:00:43,849
[Danny] When you get pushed
and pushed and pushed,
1118
01:00:43,932 --> 01:00:46,560
and you bottle it up
and bottle it up long enough,
1119
01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:48,353
it's... it just becomes a cycle.
1120
01:00:53,275 --> 01:00:54,818
[Richard] I just imagine
all the phone calls
1121
01:00:54,901 --> 01:00:55,986
going on right now.
1122
01:00:56,069 --> 01:00:58,113
Like, I don't know who's gotta talk to who
1123
01:00:58,196 --> 01:00:59,990
and do this, and figure out that,
1124
01:01:01,074 --> 01:01:02,617
But it's just funny how little...
1125
01:01:02,701 --> 01:01:06,079
- [engine starts]
- ...conversation's going on with us,
1126
01:01:06,162 --> 01:01:07,539
you know?
1127
01:01:08,915 --> 01:01:11,334
[Andrew] Well, there are
some phone calls being made
1128
01:01:11,418 --> 01:01:13,712
and we're just trying to
figure out the best option.
1129
01:01:16,464 --> 01:01:18,216
Really, we just want you
to turn back around
1130
01:01:18,300 --> 01:01:20,760
- so we can stay in contact with you.
- [engine revving]
1131
01:01:21,553 --> 01:01:22,762
[Richard] How come?
1132
01:01:22,846 --> 01:01:23,847
[Bill] Because we care.
1133
01:01:24,598 --> 01:01:25,599
[Andrew] It's true.
1134
01:01:32,397 --> 01:01:34,149
[Mary] We didn't see the signs, and I...
1135
01:01:34,232 --> 01:01:40,447
I think that part of that was
because every time he would see us,
1136
01:01:40,530 --> 01:01:43,116
it was a little whirlwind weekend,
and it was just fun.
1137
01:01:43,199 --> 01:01:46,494
And that's one of the things
that frustrates me the most
1138
01:01:46,578 --> 01:01:48,788
is that I did not know
that he was depressed.
1139
01:01:48,872 --> 01:01:49,873
I...
1140
01:01:51,499 --> 01:01:54,419
And that makes me sad
that maybe I missed the signs.
1141
01:01:56,379 --> 01:01:58,715
[Richard] I got a lot of people
that care about me,
1142
01:01:58,798 --> 01:01:59,925
and
1143
01:02:01,009 --> 01:02:02,552
it's going to disappoint them
1144
01:02:04,471 --> 01:02:05,972
to hear that I did this.
1145
01:02:06,556 --> 01:02:07,599
Um...
1146
01:02:07,682 --> 01:02:09,267
I would like to apologize
1147
01:02:09,351 --> 01:02:10,769
to each and every one of them.
1148
01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:13,271
Just a broken guy.
1149
01:02:14,564 --> 01:02:16,608
Got a few screws loose, I guess.
1150
01:02:16,691 --> 01:02:18,652
Never really knew it until now.
1151
01:02:19,611 --> 01:02:20,654
Um...
1152
01:02:20,737 --> 01:02:21,863
It's, you know--
1153
01:02:25,533 --> 01:02:26,868
Man, and you know,
1154
01:02:26,952 --> 01:02:28,954
the sights went by so fast.
1155
01:02:29,537 --> 01:02:32,999
I was thinking
I'm gonna have this moment of serenity.
1156
01:02:33,083 --> 01:02:37,045
You know, be able to
just take all in all the sights, and--
1157
01:02:38,171 --> 01:02:40,840
there's a lot of pretty stuff, but
1158
01:02:42,509 --> 01:02:45,261
I think they're prettier
in a different context.
1159
01:02:46,054 --> 01:02:51,017
I really wish he would have told me
he felt that way before.
1160
01:02:51,726 --> 01:02:54,771
[Colleen] The pilot, Rich is getting
kind of emotional right now.
1161
01:02:56,356 --> 01:02:57,691
[Andrew] Well, Rich, you know
1162
01:02:58,525 --> 01:02:59,776
you seem to get--
1163
01:02:59,859 --> 01:03:02,195
you seem like
you're getting down on yourself
1164
01:03:02,278 --> 01:03:03,363
but there's no need to do that.
1165
01:03:03,446 --> 01:03:06,282
I mean, we're--
we all get down on ourselves a little bit,
1166
01:03:06,366 --> 01:03:07,450
but,
1167
01:03:08,159 --> 01:03:09,285
there's no need to get upset
1168
01:03:09,369 --> 01:03:11,538
with ourselves about it, you know.
1169
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:16,626
[Andreas] Being at Horizon, it just
became too much, so I had to leave.
1170
01:03:19,004 --> 01:03:21,923
But I saw Richard
a week before he took that plane.
1171
01:03:23,508 --> 01:03:26,094
I said,
"Why don't you come over to my job?"
1172
01:03:27,012 --> 01:03:29,639
He says, "Yeah,
but I really am trying to move up.
1173
01:03:29,723 --> 01:03:31,266
I really do. I don't want to leave."
1174
01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:35,437
I said, "Okay. Well,
if you ever want to, let me know."
1175
01:03:37,355 --> 01:03:39,691
Why didn't I talk to him
a little bit longer?
1176
01:03:40,567 --> 01:03:44,279
Was that a chance for me to...
to find out what's really going on?
1177
01:03:44,362 --> 01:03:45,488
"Are you okay?"
1178
01:03:45,572 --> 01:03:47,073
[plane engine roaring]
1179
01:03:47,907 --> 01:03:49,409
[♪ poignant music playing]
1180
01:03:51,077 --> 01:03:52,871
[Richard]
I think this is part of the reason
1181
01:03:52,954 --> 01:03:55,165
why I decided to do something so extreme,
1182
01:03:55,248 --> 01:03:56,332
is just 'cause
1183
01:03:56,416 --> 01:03:58,877
everything is always business
all the time.
1184
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,047
Even when you know,
you're hanging out with people,
1185
01:04:02,130 --> 01:04:04,007
it's just business.
1186
01:04:04,090 --> 01:04:05,091
Um...
1187
01:04:06,009 --> 01:04:07,135
I just--
1188
01:04:08,428 --> 01:04:10,388
You know, those real close personal
1189
01:04:11,890 --> 01:04:14,559
moments are just so few and far between.
1190
01:04:14,642 --> 01:04:15,810
Um...
1191
01:04:17,687 --> 01:04:18,897
Yeah, it sucks.
1192
01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:22,150
So, like, I wouldn't mind just
shooting the shit with you guys,
1193
01:04:22,233 --> 01:04:24,069
but it's all business, you know.
1194
01:04:25,445 --> 01:04:27,947
[Andrew] Yeah, Rich.
We'd like to talk to you too.
1195
01:04:28,031 --> 01:04:29,199
So, you've made a turn--
1196
01:04:29,282 --> 01:04:30,950
a right turn to the west now,
1197
01:04:31,034 --> 01:04:33,119
so if you could just stop your turn
1198
01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:35,330
and then keep it nice and level there
1199
01:04:35,413 --> 01:04:37,165
and then we can start talking.
1200
01:04:37,665 --> 01:04:40,293
Maybe we can set up something,
maybe a place for you to land.
1201
01:04:40,376 --> 01:04:42,587
[Richard]
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to land it.
1202
01:04:43,338 --> 01:04:44,547
Like,
1203
01:04:45,131 --> 01:04:47,092
in a safe, safe kind of manner.
1204
01:04:47,175 --> 01:04:50,804
Think I'm gonna try to do a barrel roll,
1205
01:04:50,887 --> 01:04:54,766
and if that goes good I'll just go
nose down and call it a night.
1206
01:04:55,517 --> 01:04:56,601
[Andrew] Well, no need to do that.
1207
01:04:56,684 --> 01:04:58,561
If you could just
start a turn to the right,
1208
01:04:58,645 --> 01:05:00,146
and then I'll tell you
when to stop turning,
1209
01:05:00,230 --> 01:05:01,356
and then you can keep it level from there.
1210
01:05:03,274 --> 01:05:06,694
[Richard] Alright.
Well, I'll keep climbing a little bit.
1211
01:05:07,987 --> 01:05:09,447
I feel like I need to be--
1212
01:05:09,531 --> 01:05:10,824
What do you think? Like 5,000 feet
1213
01:05:10,907 --> 01:05:13,493
at least to be able to pull
this barrel roll off?
1214
01:05:17,122 --> 01:05:19,290
[Bill] Really,
there's no safe altitude for that.
1215
01:05:20,708 --> 01:05:23,711
I wouldn't even try it.
You're gonna hurt somebody on the ground.
1216
01:05:30,301 --> 01:05:31,845
[Andrew] And Rich,
you said you didn't want
1217
01:05:31,928 --> 01:05:34,222
to hurt anybody on the ground.
1218
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:38,935
And we don't want see you get hurt either.
1219
01:05:46,693 --> 01:05:49,904
[Bill] Rich, you'd be a hero if you could
pull off a landing.
1220
01:05:52,365 --> 01:05:54,492
[Richard] No, I would just be
a public nuisance
1221
01:05:54,576 --> 01:05:56,870
that goes to jail for the rest of my life.
[chuckles]
1222
01:05:57,745 --> 01:05:58,746
So.
1223
01:05:58,830 --> 01:06:01,958
I've been kind of weighing my options
1224
01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:03,585
back and forth,
1225
01:06:03,668 --> 01:06:06,421
and though I would love
three squares a day
1226
01:06:06,504 --> 01:06:09,174
and just reading books the whole time
1227
01:06:11,092 --> 01:06:13,469
and I know I'd get some letters
from my loved ones.
1228
01:06:14,721 --> 01:06:16,347
I got a bunch of them out there.
1229
01:06:17,056 --> 01:06:18,433
[engine roaring]
1230
01:06:18,516 --> 01:06:19,642
[Richard] Um...
1231
01:06:19,726 --> 01:06:24,272
You know, it just wouldn't be the best,
you know?
1232
01:06:31,946 --> 01:06:33,156
[Andrew] You've got a wife.
1233
01:06:36,618 --> 01:06:38,786
[Richard] Oh, you Facebook-stalked me?
[snickers]
1234
01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:48,046
I... I still can't believe
he chose the path he chose.
1235
01:06:50,215 --> 01:06:51,216
I didn't see it.
1236
01:06:51,299 --> 01:06:52,800
[engine roaring]
1237
01:06:59,224 --> 01:07:00,725
[♪ poignant music playing]
1238
01:07:06,147 --> 01:07:08,441
[onlooker 1] He's turning.
He's completely sideways.
1239
01:07:11,319 --> 01:07:13,821
He's going all the way. He's upside down.
1240
01:07:15,865 --> 01:07:17,242
- Oh, my God!
- [onlooker 2] Sh...
1241
01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:22,830
- [onlooker 1] Holy shit! Holy shit, man!
- [onlookers clamor]
1242
01:07:22,914 --> 01:07:25,500
[onlooker 1] Holy shit! Holy shit!
1243
01:07:26,376 --> 01:07:29,921
- [alarms blaring]
- [automated voice] Pull up. Pull up.
1244
01:07:30,004 --> 01:07:32,423
- [music, alarms end]
- [interference screeching]
1245
01:07:36,803 --> 01:07:37,971
[♪ "Outro" playing]
1246
01:07:38,054 --> 01:07:40,515
[onlooker 1] Oh, my God.
I'm gonna have a heart attack. [chuckles]
1247
01:07:42,642 --> 01:07:45,645
- Oh, my God. Is he okay? He's okay.
- [onlookers clamor]
1248
01:07:45,728 --> 01:07:49,023
[onlooker 1] He's okay!
He's okay, he's okay, he's okay.
1249
01:07:53,236 --> 01:07:55,154
[ROCK 42]
TOI-1 just completed a barrel roll.
1250
01:07:55,989 --> 01:07:59,117
Current altitude, 2,000 feet.
1251
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,786
[Andrew]
ROCK 42, confirm he did a barrel roll.
1252
01:08:02,578 --> 01:08:04,289
[ROCK 42] Affirm, he cleared
the surface of the water
1253
01:08:04,372 --> 01:08:06,165
by approximately 10 feet.
1254
01:08:07,250 --> 01:08:08,251
[Colleen] He did it.
1255
01:08:10,420 --> 01:08:12,463
He completed the barrel roll.
1256
01:08:14,674 --> 01:08:17,051
[Richard]
Hey, is that my jet pilot finally?
1257
01:08:20,179 --> 01:08:25,268
Pilots contacted me and said that that
plane should never have done what it did.
1258
01:08:25,977 --> 01:08:28,730
That plane was just not meant
to do those things.
1259
01:08:30,898 --> 01:08:33,609
[Phil] My brother is this guy,
never flown a plane in his life,
1260
01:08:34,193 --> 01:08:38,531
takes off, flies around,
and then does a freaking barrel roll
1261
01:08:39,365 --> 01:08:41,242
and doesn't crash land it.
1262
01:08:41,326 --> 01:08:43,036
It's pretty impressive.
1263
01:08:45,621 --> 01:08:49,250
I mean, the kid had unlimited potential.
1264
01:08:50,877 --> 01:08:53,171
I feel like if he would have, uh,
1265
01:08:54,422 --> 01:08:58,176
just known all the potential
he had inside him,
1266
01:08:59,177 --> 01:09:04,474
instead of whatever it was that made him
feel like he wasn't good enough,
1267
01:09:05,892 --> 01:09:07,769
then, who knows? He...
1268
01:09:07,852 --> 01:09:10,605
He could have been
whatever he wanted to be.
1269
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:14,859
[Bill]
Alright, Rich, this is Captain Bill.
1270
01:09:14,942 --> 01:09:16,194
Congratulations, you did that.
1271
01:09:16,277 --> 01:09:18,780
Now let's try to land that airplane safely
1272
01:09:18,863 --> 01:09:20,948
and not hurt anybody on the ground.
1273
01:09:21,032 --> 01:09:22,241
[Andrew] Western. Headquarters.
1274
01:09:22,325 --> 01:09:23,326
[jet engine roaring]
1275
01:09:23,409 --> 01:09:24,869
[air traffic controller] Western.
1276
01:09:24,952 --> 01:09:28,039
[Andrew] Have ROCK ask the altitude again.
Confirm altitude.
1277
01:09:30,458 --> 01:09:31,876
[air traffic controller]
ROCK has him at 2,000.
1278
01:09:31,959 --> 01:09:32,960
[Andrew] Thank you.
1279
01:09:34,295 --> 01:09:37,090
[♪ solemn music playing]
1280
01:09:47,809 --> 01:09:51,521
[Colleen] All right, ROCK is trying to
talk him into landing the airplane now.
1281
01:09:53,898 --> 01:09:56,442
[Richard] All right. Ah, damn it.
1282
01:09:56,526 --> 01:09:59,445
I don't know. Man, I don't know!
I don't want to.
1283
01:09:59,529 --> 01:10:01,698
I was kind of hoping that was
going to be it, you know?
1284
01:10:02,532 --> 01:10:04,033
[♪ poignant music playing]
1285
01:10:05,201 --> 01:10:07,662
[ROCK 41] Hey, Rich,
how much fuel you got left on there?
1286
01:10:09,455 --> 01:10:10,665
[Richard] Uh...
1287
01:10:10,748 --> 01:10:13,292
Over 500, like 550.
1288
01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:14,877
[ROCK 41] Okay.
1289
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:20,091
[Colleen] So at 550 pounds of fuel,
that's about five minutes of flight time.
1290
01:10:20,174 --> 01:10:21,676
[scoreboard clock ticking]
1291
01:10:22,719 --> 01:10:26,639
It's decision-making time
for the fighter pilots.
1292
01:10:27,890 --> 01:10:30,810
[Colleen] DEN. I don't know
how familiar you are with this area,
1293
01:10:30,893 --> 01:10:32,812
but basically we have,
1294
01:10:33,396 --> 01:10:35,773
a lot of islands
and a lot of inlets of water.
1295
01:10:35,857 --> 01:10:38,818
So, the fighters
1296
01:10:38,901 --> 01:10:40,153
will have opportunities
1297
01:10:40,236 --> 01:10:42,739
where he's over with the water a lot.
1298
01:10:42,822 --> 01:10:44,699
But, there's all kinds of houses
1299
01:10:44,782 --> 01:10:47,452
on all the edges of the water.
1300
01:10:47,535 --> 01:10:49,871
So, they're not really wide waterways,
1301
01:10:49,954 --> 01:10:51,748
they're kind of narrow.
1302
01:10:51,831 --> 01:10:56,043
So, their opportunity,
references the amount of fuel that he has.
1303
01:10:57,211 --> 01:10:59,255
Just kind of giving you a heads up.
1304
01:10:59,338 --> 01:11:00,840
{\an8}[ticking continues]
1305
01:11:09,390 --> 01:11:10,391
[ticking ends]
1306
01:11:10,475 --> 01:11:12,477
[♪ melancholy music playing]
1307
01:11:20,318 --> 01:11:23,112
[Colleen] He's over Ketron Island. K-E-D-
1308
01:11:23,613 --> 01:11:25,990
K-E-T-R-O-N Island.
1309
01:11:27,033 --> 01:11:30,661
He's right next to Ketron Island.
K-E-T-R-O-N.
1310
01:11:31,829 --> 01:11:33,289
And a report from a local
1311
01:11:33,372 --> 01:11:36,167
says about thirty people
live on the island.
1312
01:11:36,834 --> 01:11:39,003
[ticking resumes]
1313
01:11:39,086 --> 01:11:40,588
[♪ ominous music playing]
1314
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:49,764
[Andrew] Rich, you still there?
1315
01:11:53,017 --> 01:11:54,018
[Richard] Yeah, not for long.
1316
01:11:54,101 --> 01:11:56,270
I feel like one of my engines
is going out or something.
1317
01:11:56,354 --> 01:11:57,855
[engine straining]
1318
01:11:58,648 --> 01:12:00,149
[children giggling, shrieking]
1319
01:12:01,359 --> 01:12:02,777
[ticking continues]
1320
01:12:14,956 --> 01:12:16,958
[ticking continues]
1321
01:12:25,591 --> 01:12:27,176
[Andrew] Okay, Rich, if you could,
1322
01:12:27,260 --> 01:12:29,387
you just want to keep that plane
right over the water?
1323
01:12:29,470 --> 01:12:31,347
Maybe keep the aircraft nice and low?
1324
01:12:33,349 --> 01:12:35,268
Can you do that?
1325
01:12:41,732 --> 01:12:44,235
41 can you just verify that...
1326
01:12:44,318 --> 01:12:46,529
that he's still over the water there?
1327
01:12:49,615 --> 01:12:52,535
[Bill] Hey Rich, this is Captain Bill.
How's it going up there?
1328
01:12:54,036 --> 01:12:59,292
[Ken] All right, just got a report on
another phone that ROCK 41 reports splash.
1329
01:13:02,753 --> 01:13:03,754
[Colleen] Okay.
1330
01:13:04,755 --> 01:13:08,009
[Ken] And target fade at 0348.
1331
01:13:08,092 --> 01:13:09,552
Target fade.
1332
01:13:11,554 --> 01:13:12,555
[air traffic controller] Western.
1333
01:13:13,598 --> 01:13:14,765
[Colleen] Colleen here.
1334
01:13:16,225 --> 01:13:18,102
Okay, Jason. Did you hear that?
1335
01:13:19,103 --> 01:13:20,146
[Jason] Yes.
1336
01:13:20,229 --> 01:13:22,398
[buzzer sounds]
1337
01:13:26,736 --> 01:13:30,698
[Colleen] All right,
ROCK 42 reported that he hit the island.
1338
01:13:37,705 --> 01:13:38,915
[headphones clatter]
1339
01:13:38,998 --> 01:13:39,999
Uh...
1340
01:13:48,799 --> 01:13:50,134
[static interference]
1341
01:13:50,885 --> 01:13:51,886
That's it?
1342
01:13:59,435 --> 01:14:00,645
Well, I mean... [stammers]
1343
01:14:00,728 --> 01:14:03,981
There was no more... There wasn't
any other transmissions from...
1344
01:14:04,065 --> 01:14:05,816
from Beebo from the cockpit?
1345
01:14:06,359 --> 01:14:07,360
It was just kinda...
1346
01:14:08,569 --> 01:14:09,654
[softly] Oh.
1347
01:14:13,699 --> 01:14:14,700
[clicks tongue]
1348
01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:16,327
[inhales shakily]
1349
01:14:17,036 --> 01:14:20,623
[exhales deeply]
1350
01:14:20,706 --> 01:14:21,999
I just hope that...
1351
01:14:22,833 --> 01:14:25,836
It looked like
it was probably instantaneous.
1352
01:14:28,297 --> 01:14:29,966
I mean, he didn't feel any pain.
1353
01:14:32,802 --> 01:14:34,470
Hope he wasn't scared.
1354
01:14:37,390 --> 01:14:39,392
[♪ reverent music playing]
1355
01:14:47,483 --> 01:14:51,696
[Colleen] After the entire ordeal
was over, Andrew was up off position.
1356
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:56,200
I just walked out there,
and he was in the hallway.
1357
01:14:56,951 --> 01:14:58,536
I went to go talk to him.
1358
01:15:01,372 --> 01:15:04,875
I looked at him,
and I could just see it in his face.
1359
01:15:05,835 --> 01:15:07,253
That he was devastated.
1360
01:15:08,295 --> 01:15:09,588
And we cried.
1361
01:15:10,256 --> 01:15:12,216
And I said, "I'm sorry.
1362
01:15:13,092 --> 01:15:16,679
I needed you t-t-to do that.
You were the one I needed.
1363
01:15:19,015 --> 01:15:22,101
Please don't go home alone." [sobs]
"Don't go home.
1364
01:15:22,184 --> 01:15:26,313
Stay here with your friends,
call your parents, call someone.
1365
01:15:26,397 --> 01:15:28,441
Don't go home. Don't be alone now."
1366
01:15:30,276 --> 01:15:31,777
[car engine roaring]
1367
01:15:38,868 --> 01:15:40,453
[Karen] I think he was still in the air
1368
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:42,788
when Alaska Air
put me on the next flight out.
1369
01:15:44,206 --> 01:15:49,962
So I think when I got on the plane
to come down to Seattle... [sniffles]
1370
01:15:52,131 --> 01:15:54,508
...I think they knew,
but they didn't tell me,
1371
01:15:55,009 --> 01:15:56,469
that the plane had gone down.
1372
01:16:02,850 --> 01:16:07,438
I remember telling Hannah that
we are family, and we'll always be family.
1373
01:16:09,565 --> 01:16:13,861
But we just lost touch. [inhales shakily]
1374
01:16:15,613 --> 01:16:22,161
[sobbing] And I just have to accept
that maybe seeing me hurts too much.
1375
01:16:23,662 --> 01:16:25,539
[♪ dark ambient music playing]
1376
01:16:28,751 --> 01:16:30,169
I'm just so sad.
1377
01:16:34,173 --> 01:16:40,971
People say that you have visions or dreams
or whatever of your lost loved one.
1378
01:16:45,601 --> 01:16:51,857
And I don't... [stammering] I haven't
received any kind of... any visit from him.
1379
01:16:52,900 --> 01:16:54,318
[♪ music continues]
1380
01:16:56,278 --> 01:16:58,739
You know, if it's a feather
blowing in the wind,
1381
01:16:58,823 --> 01:17:01,742
or if it's a rock
hitting me on the head, doesn't matter.
1382
01:17:05,329 --> 01:17:07,623
I just want to know that he's okay.
1383
01:17:10,167 --> 01:17:12,253
[news anchor 1] This is a look
at the crash scene.
1384
01:17:12,336 --> 01:17:14,463
[news anchor 2] We take another look
at that wild video.
1385
01:17:14,547 --> 01:17:17,383
{\an8}An airline employee
steals a passenger plane
1386
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:18,926
{\an8}from Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport.
1387
01:17:19,009 --> 01:17:20,386
I can't get the story out of my head.
1388
01:17:20,469 --> 01:17:22,847
[new anchor 3] Initially,
they didn't know the man's motives.
1389
01:17:22,930 --> 01:17:25,724
[news anchors overlapping]
1390
01:17:25,808 --> 01:17:27,935
[Karen] I was hoping that the press
would just leave me alone.
1391
01:17:28,018 --> 01:17:29,019
[overlapping continues]
1392
01:17:29,103 --> 01:17:32,439
{\an8}[Karen] I had no interest
in talking to the press.
1393
01:17:32,523 --> 01:17:35,818
{\an8}I had no interest
in sharing my story with anybody.
1394
01:17:36,443 --> 01:17:41,824
I just didn't understand
the obsession with this.
1395
01:17:41,907 --> 01:17:44,410
I didn't understand it.
To me, this was a horrible death.
1396
01:17:44,493 --> 01:17:45,786
[news anchor 4]
Fighter jets were sent out.
1397
01:17:45,870 --> 01:17:47,580
There were concerns
this could be terror related.
1398
01:17:47,663 --> 01:17:50,958
{\an8}Federal investigators are hoping
the recovery of those black boxes
1399
01:17:51,041 --> 01:17:55,296
{\an8}give them a better understanding into
what motivated this airline ground worker
1400
01:17:55,379 --> 01:17:58,340
to steal this plane and fly off
in the first place.
1401
01:17:58,966 --> 01:18:02,553
It was pretty clear, like,
this was gonna get controversial.
1402
01:18:03,637 --> 01:18:05,139
[computer mouse clicking]
1403
01:18:07,683 --> 01:18:10,311
My family, my parents,
they say, "Don't watch it.
1404
01:18:10,394 --> 01:18:12,730
You can't watch it.
It's gonna drive you nuts."
1405
01:18:14,648 --> 01:18:19,153
[Chris] It was sensationalized
and politicized almost exclusively
1406
01:18:19,236 --> 01:18:23,741
just to argue preexisting,
um, political points
1407
01:18:23,824 --> 01:18:26,660
that were very extreme.
1408
01:18:30,039 --> 01:18:33,125
- [heartbeat thumping rhythmically]
- [Chris] The far-left demonized him.
1409
01:18:33,709 --> 01:18:36,045
'Cause this just seems to be
another angry white man, right?
1410
01:18:36,128 --> 01:18:37,838
As simple as that. [stammers]
1411
01:18:37,922 --> 01:18:40,341
Like, lacking a bunch
of this sophistication.
1412
01:18:41,383 --> 01:18:43,594
And then, like, equally wrong
on the right side.
1413
01:18:43,677 --> 01:18:46,347
They're like, "Look at this hero
for white nationals."
1414
01:18:46,430 --> 01:18:48,224
Like, "Dude, that's not even close
to being right!"
1415
01:18:48,307 --> 01:18:49,642
[♪ ominous music playing]
1416
01:18:51,894 --> 01:18:55,606
[Andreas] If he was a terrorist,
why did he not fly into something?
1417
01:18:55,689 --> 01:18:58,525
Why did he not try to harm others?
1418
01:18:58,609 --> 01:19:01,820
Why did he not take the plane
when there was people there?
1419
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:04,740
There's this quote in there,
1420
01:19:04,823 --> 01:19:07,993
"I think he feels the pain
of an entire race being exterminated
1421
01:19:08,077 --> 01:19:10,371
but can't quite
articulate his depression."
1422
01:19:10,454 --> 01:19:12,998
[snickering] That's so stupid.
1423
01:19:13,582 --> 01:19:18,879
That is the most incorrect diagnosis
of what he was thinking and feeling.
1424
01:19:22,091 --> 01:19:28,639
[Danny] These T-shirts here
from a neo-Nazi, white nationalist outfit
1425
01:19:29,682 --> 01:19:34,979
uses my brother as, you know,
kind of a poster child to sell merchandise
1426
01:19:35,062 --> 01:19:37,481
that supports their ridiculous beliefs.
1427
01:19:39,191 --> 01:19:42,111
It's bad enough
to take somebody's suicide and...
1428
01:19:42,194 --> 01:19:46,949
[chuckles] ...make T-shirts
and monetize it, um,
1429
01:19:47,032 --> 01:19:53,998
but to be somebody
that outside of his beliefs is just gross.
1430
01:19:55,499 --> 01:20:00,462
Traditional conservatives, we don't
believe that America should be only white.
1431
01:20:01,088 --> 01:20:05,259
Beebo was not about any of that.
He would be absolutely disgusted.
1432
01:20:06,051 --> 01:20:10,931
Here's this incredibly sad event
1433
01:20:12,141 --> 01:20:15,811
that people made him out
to be something he wasn't.
1434
01:20:16,395 --> 01:20:19,023
Beebo was not part of your agenda.
1435
01:20:20,274 --> 01:20:22,651
[Andreas] He said why he was doing
what he was doing.
1436
01:20:23,777 --> 01:20:25,321
He named off work stuff.
1437
01:20:29,700 --> 01:20:32,244
[Chris]
But very shortly after all of that,
1438
01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:35,622
there was a lot of these memes
that were popping up on social media.
1439
01:20:38,584 --> 01:20:42,338
{\an8}[Phil] I noticed it went viral
when I saw a meme
1440
01:20:43,380 --> 01:20:47,426
with, uh, him doing the loop the loop
over the Sound.
1441
01:20:47,509 --> 01:20:49,720
It said, "#SkyKing."
1442
01:20:50,387 --> 01:20:52,097
And I kinda looked into it a little bit,
1443
01:20:52,181 --> 01:20:54,850
like, "What are they talking about,
Sky King?"
1444
01:20:59,355 --> 01:21:04,443
Something about it had resonated
really deeply with, uh, a group of people.
1445
01:21:06,445 --> 01:21:09,239
{\an8}[Phil] To me,
the whole Sky King thing is, uh...
1446
01:21:09,907 --> 01:21:15,371
{\an8}It's like Beebo giving a big "fuck you"
to corporate America.
1447
01:21:15,954 --> 01:21:19,875
I feel like
that was definitely part of him.
1448
01:21:20,459 --> 01:21:24,213
[Chris] There was this person
who felt like he was this cog
1449
01:21:24,296 --> 01:21:26,757
in this giant machine.
1450
01:21:27,424 --> 01:21:30,302
And this was his last stand
to kind of finally break free
1451
01:21:30,386 --> 01:21:33,847
from being what they described online
as this "wage slave."
1452
01:21:37,726 --> 01:21:40,187
In many ways, this could be me, right?
1453
01:21:40,270 --> 01:21:44,358
[YouTuber] This video is in memory
of the Sky King: Richard "Beebo" Russell.
1454
01:21:44,441 --> 01:21:47,027
The last thing I want to do
is glorify suicide,
1455
01:21:47,111 --> 01:21:49,488
and that's the opposite
of what I'm here to do on the Internet.
1456
01:21:50,114 --> 01:21:53,909
But for some reason, this story really
resonated with me and a lot of people.
1457
01:21:53,992 --> 01:21:55,119
He was just a regular guy...
1458
01:21:55,202 --> 01:21:56,286
[♪ melancholy music playing]
1459
01:21:56,370 --> 01:22:01,291
[Karen] I got letters and texts
from people all over the world.
1460
01:22:01,375 --> 01:22:05,921
From South America to Europe to India,
to, uh, everywhere
1461
01:22:06,004 --> 01:22:10,259
about how they were gonna,
um, commit suicide,
1462
01:22:10,342 --> 01:22:12,886
but they read his story, and they didn't.
1463
01:22:12,970 --> 01:22:14,012
[sniffles]
1464
01:22:14,763 --> 01:22:17,224
[Richard on recording]
I got a lot of people that care about me,
1465
01:22:17,307 --> 01:22:21,019
and, uh, it's gonna disappoint them
1466
01:22:22,354 --> 01:22:24,523
to... to hear that I did this.
1467
01:22:25,190 --> 01:22:29,111
Um, I would like to apologize
to each and every one of them.
1468
01:22:29,903 --> 01:22:33,157
Um... [sighs] ...just a broken guy.
1469
01:22:34,366 --> 01:22:36,452
Got a few screws loose, I guess.
1470
01:22:36,535 --> 01:22:38,662
Never really knew it...
[clears throat] ...till now.
1471
01:22:39,621 --> 01:22:45,127
I got hundreds of emails
from ground-service workers,
1472
01:22:45,210 --> 01:22:51,300
from flight crews,
from, um, ex-pilots who...
1473
01:22:51,383 --> 01:22:55,679
[sighing, stuttering] Basically... [sighs]
1474
01:22:56,305 --> 01:23:00,184
"Your brother's a rock star.
He said what we've all been saying."
1475
01:23:00,267 --> 01:23:03,187
[sniffles] Um, "It's how we all feel."
1476
01:23:03,270 --> 01:23:06,148
And they see him as somebody
1477
01:23:07,608 --> 01:23:13,113
that was kinda sticking up
for those that are put to the wayside...
1478
01:23:13,197 --> 01:23:17,326
[sobbing] ...and thought of as "ramp rat."
[sobs]
1479
01:23:21,413 --> 01:23:22,414
[sniffles]
1480
01:23:23,582 --> 01:23:26,376
They, uh... They internalize how they feel.
1481
01:23:26,460 --> 01:23:28,212
[swallows] And, uh... [blusters]
1482
01:23:28,795 --> 01:23:31,089
He let that cat out of the bag.
1483
01:23:31,173 --> 01:23:37,638
And, you know, for some of them,
that's all they needed to hear was,
1484
01:23:37,721 --> 01:23:40,265
they weren't the only ones
that felt that way about their job.
1485
01:23:41,517 --> 01:23:42,976
[sniffles]
1486
01:23:43,060 --> 01:23:44,061
[clamoring]
1487
01:23:44,144 --> 01:23:45,646
[♪ pensive music playing]
1488
01:23:52,819 --> 01:23:54,446
[whoops]
1489
01:23:54,530 --> 01:23:58,450
[Pat] The younger generations
are losing what we had.
1490
01:23:58,534 --> 01:24:01,328
We all believed in the American dream.
1491
01:24:03,205 --> 01:24:07,960
The kids today, they even question,
"What is the American dream?"
1492
01:24:08,043 --> 01:24:11,004
- [clamoring continues]
- [whoops]
1493
01:24:11,088 --> 01:24:13,549
[Pat] My nephew, his generation,
1494
01:24:13,632 --> 01:24:15,926
I think they were just caught
right there in the middle
1495
01:24:16,009 --> 01:24:18,011
{\an8}as everything was transitioning.
1496
01:24:19,179 --> 01:24:20,430
[crowd members whoop]
1497
01:24:20,514 --> 01:24:24,101
[Pat] Even though
it's the economy changing,
1498
01:24:25,018 --> 01:24:29,690
people are going to think, because they
can't attain it, that it's their fault.
1499
01:24:30,607 --> 01:24:32,776
[whooping continues]
1500
01:24:36,363 --> 01:24:37,948
[children giggling]
1501
01:24:42,411 --> 01:24:44,496
- [Danny] Keep going, keep going.
- [shrieks]
1502
01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:48,208
[crowd cheering]
1503
01:25:02,556 --> 01:25:04,141
[♪ ominous music playing]
1504
01:25:09,521 --> 01:25:11,523
[seagull calling]
1505
01:25:18,655 --> 01:25:20,240
[♪ pensive music playing]
1506
01:25:20,324 --> 01:25:22,993
[Karen] There's a sorrow
that is always there.
1507
01:25:32,919 --> 01:25:35,088
If I could talk to Beebo right now,
1508
01:25:36,340 --> 01:25:38,175
I'd slap him upside the head and go,
1509
01:25:38,258 --> 01:25:40,302
"What the hell were you thinking?"
[chuckles]
1510
01:25:40,385 --> 01:25:41,678
[chuckling] I really would. I...
1511
01:25:41,762 --> 01:25:43,472
[normal] You know, "Beebo, don't."
1512
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:45,807
You know, "Don't.
1513
01:25:47,225 --> 01:25:48,226
Talk to me.
1514
01:25:50,604 --> 01:25:51,772
Just talk to me.
1515
01:25:52,439 --> 01:25:56,026
There's nothing that we cannot solve.
1516
01:25:56,109 --> 01:25:57,110
Just talk to me."
1517
01:26:00,197 --> 01:26:03,158
- [producer] Did he disappoint you?
- Oh, God, no. [sniffles]
1518
01:26:04,284 --> 01:26:05,535
He was the best.
1519
01:26:08,789 --> 01:26:12,876
He never disappointed me. Ever. He was...
1520
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:16,672
[whimpers] I was so proud of him.
1521
01:26:16,755 --> 01:26:18,340
[♪ music continues]
1522
01:26:41,655 --> 01:26:42,656
[sobs]
1523
01:28:07,616 --> 01:28:09,659
[♪ dolorous string music playing]
1524
01:28:09,743 --> 01:28:13,747
Just saw this video.
Ugh, brought me to tears.
1525
01:28:13,830 --> 01:28:17,375
This video is in memory of the Sky King:
Richard Beebo Russell.
1526
01:28:18,251 --> 01:28:21,087
I just went down a rabbit hole
on Sky King,
1527
01:28:21,171 --> 01:28:23,965
and, oh, my God, the audio...
1528
01:28:24,049 --> 01:28:30,263
I hope maybe Sky King
and this message helps you too.
1529
01:28:30,889 --> 01:28:37,562
There is almost a poetry to someone who
has spent their entire career, at least...
1530
01:28:37,646 --> 01:28:42,192
[speaking Spanish]
1531
01:28:42,275 --> 01:28:45,737
[speaking Spanish]
1532
01:28:45,821 --> 01:28:49,950
If you or someone you know is struggling,
please seek professional help.
1533
01:28:50,033 --> 01:28:52,869
So instead of playing by the rules,
he had nothing to lose.
1534
01:28:52,953 --> 01:28:56,623
He was gonna break it
and show the world what he was capable of.
1535
01:28:56,706 --> 01:29:01,795
He performed unbelievable aerial stunts,
including a barrel roll.
1536
01:29:01,878 --> 01:29:05,340
A video I'd like you to watch of him
talking to the air traffic controller...
1537
01:29:05,423 --> 01:29:10,053
...of mental health and the different ways
people might reach out for help.
1538
01:29:10,136 --> 01:29:12,973
I've listened to the audio of the Sky King
a few times now, and it really does...
1539
01:29:13,056 --> 01:29:17,394
I just watched another Sky King video, so...
[smacks lips] ...if you need me...
1540
01:29:17,477 --> 01:29:21,022
There are a lot of men out there
that are carrying so many burdens.
1541
01:29:21,106 --> 01:29:24,985
Man, I'm telling you that might be some of
the most important audio I've ever heard.
1542
01:29:25,068 --> 01:29:29,322
As the voice recordings show,
Beebo's intent was not to harm anyone.
1543
01:29:29,406 --> 01:29:33,368
He was right in saying that there are
so many people who have loved him.
1544
01:29:33,451 --> 01:29:37,038
You know, do your barrel roll.
Do your barrel roll.
1545
01:29:37,581 --> 01:29:39,499
[sobs] Land safely.
1546
01:29:43,211 --> 01:29:44,212
[sobs]
1547
01:30:26,254 --> 01:30:27,255
[♪ music ends]