Man Stole a Plane to Do Backflips (Real Video)
Long-form10:058.0× channel median
Published Aug 18, 2026, 12:28 PM · 8w ago
Faisal Zulfiqar
138K subscribers · median 16.4K views
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Description
What happens when an ordinary airport ground worker steals a passenger plane and takes it into the sky—without ever having formal pilot training?
On August 10, 2018, Richard “Bibo” Russell, a ground service agent at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, climbed into an empty Horizon Air passenger aircraft, started it up, and took off. What followed was an unbelievable hour-long flight over Seattle, where Bibo performed dangerous aerial maneuvers and even attempted backflips while air traffic controllers desperately tried to convince him to land.
During the flight, Bibo calmly communicated with the air traffic controller, joked about the situation, talked about how beautiful the scenery was, and eventually described himself as a “broken guy” with “a couple of screws loose.”
How did an airport ground worker manage to steal a passenger plane and fly it without formal flight training? Why did he take the aircraft? And what happened during the final moments of the flight?
This is the disturbing and unbelievable story of the **Sky King plane theft**, one of the strangest aviation incidents ever captured on video.
✈️ Watch the full story to learn what happened during Bibo's final flight.
**This video is created for documentary, educational, and storytelling purposes.**
#SkyKing #RichardRussell #PlaneTheft #Aviation #TrueStory #TrueCrime #BizarreStories #Airplane #Seattle #HorizonAir
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- Aug 18, 2026, 12:28 PM
- Length
- 10:05 (605 s)
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- Long-form
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