The Sky King 47.151641, -122.637231

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"The Sky King" refers to Richard Russell, a ground service agent who, in 2018, stole a Horizon Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma Airport and flew it for about an hour before intentionally crashing it on a remote island, miraculously harming no one else. His calm communications with air traffic control, his skillful aerobatics like a barrel roll, and his tragic background as a seemingly ordinary man struggling with mental health led to his nickname "Sky King" and his transformation into a complex, sorrowful folk figure.

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