This is a special episode of Air Traffic Out of Control, featuring one of the craziest ATC recordings ever captured.

In 2018, a man named Richard Russell who was a ground service agent for Horizon Airlines working at Seattle Tacoma Airport figured out how to operate a plane, with no known aviation experience, and stole one of the Horizon aircraft for a joy ride as it sat on the runway in maintenance position. 

Listen in on the (barely believable) ATC recording.

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