Chilling audio has emerged from the man who stole a plane in Seattle on Friday and performed a series of highly dangerous maneuvers before crashing in what authorities have said is an apparent suicide.
The 29-year-old airline worker who stole the plane told air traffic controllers that he was “just a broken guy” and that he just wanted to perform some “maneuvers.”
At one point, the man, who has not been identified, said before performing a dangerous barrel role: “I think I’m going to land it, in a safe kind of manner. I think I’m gonna try to do a barrel and if that goes good, then I’ll just go nose down and call it a night.”
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Footage of the stunt shows that he barely managed to avoid crashing from the maneuver as he came within feet of running the plane into the ground.
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An unknown amount of time passed before the man either lost control of the plane or decided to crash it:
