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Airline worker steals empty plane in Seattle

By Reuters
11 August 2018   |   2:00 pm
An airline worker stole an empty plane from Seattle airport on Friday and crashed it into a nearby sparsely populated island, sparking a security scare that saw U.S. fighter jets scrambled.

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