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Murder suspect airline pilot tries to steal plane

  • 17-07-2012 11:09pm
    #1
    troposphere
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    Airline pilot suspected in murder attempted to steal CRJ200. From video looks like he clipped the wing while he was trying to taxi away from the terminal. Shot himself and the aircraft rolled into the airport fence.
    A SkyWest Airlines employee wanted in connected with a Colorado murder attempted to steal a passenger plane from a small southern Utah airport then shot himself in the head after crashing the aircraft in a nearby parking lot, police confirmed Tuesday.

    Brian Hedglin, 40, scaled a razor wire fence at the St. George Municipal Airport early Tuesday then boarded the 50-passenger SkyWest jet while the airport was closed, St. George city spokesman Marc Mortenson said.

    Mortenson said the man used a rug to scale the airport's security fence in the middle of the night, drove the plane past a terminal building, clipping the wing, then crashed into cars in an airport parking lot. The plane never left the ground. Skywest officials said the man was on administrative leave at the time and they had deactivated his access cards on Friday.

    A police officer making rounds found the plane idling, boarded it and found Hedglin dead with a gunshot wound to his head, Mortenson said.

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Comments

  • #2
    pclancy
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    Wow. Wonder what his plans would have been once he got airbourne, probably would have been intercepted if he didnt file a flightplan or speak to ATC...crazy story.


  • #3
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Sad outcome.

    The fact that he was a qualified airman is neither here nor there.

    It happens everyday on terra ferma.

    One just needs to read the headlines in the Sunday papers.

    This is not really an aviation story anymore.


  • #4
    castie
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    Clipping the wing on the terminal building hardly seems like a qualified pilot though?


  • #5
    troposphere
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    Only seen the video briefly as I walked into the room during one of the main nightly news broadcasts but it looked like the original position of the aircraft probably caused the wing to hit the jetway (not terminal) than lack of skill.


  • #6
    pclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Yeah his options to get out of there were pretty limited without a tug.


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