One year after stolen Horizon plane crash, scars remain on Ketron Island
Saturday marks one year since a man stole a commercial airplane from Sea-Tac airport and crashed it on Ketron Island in Pierce County.
A lot has changed since then. New vegetation has grown, and wood chips have covered the scars in the earth, but the owner of the land is still finding pieces of aircraft debris.
“It was dry and burnt and covered in litter and now it’s a meadow,” said Tiffany Lundgren, whose father bought land at the southern tip of Ketron Island in the 1970s as an investment.
It’s always been one of those places she didn’t have to think much about, a secluded swath of forest she’d visit for camping or to just have a getaway.
“It’s taken on a new energy, it’s not quite what it used to be,” Lundgren said.
The tranquility shattered a year ago when Richard Russell, 28, an Alaska Airlines employee, stole a Horizon Air Q400 plane from Sea-Tac and flew it out over Puget Sound.
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