美國一機械工偷駕飛機後慘烈墜機

A plane has crashed in Washington state after a mechanic stole it from the Seattle-Tacoma InternationAl Airport, the Pierce County Sheriff's office said.

皮爾斯郡警長辦公室近日表示，一名機械工從西雅圖-塔科馬國際機場偷走了一架飛機，後於華盛頓州墜毀。

The aircraft took off without authorization and without passengers with "an airline employee" at the controls, airport officials tweeted last Friday.

機場官員上週五發推特說，這架飛機未經授權起飛，機上沒有乘客，飛機僅由“一名航空公司員工”控制。

The plane went down on Ketron Island, which is about 40 miles southwest of the airport, the sheriff's office said.

警長辦公室稱，最終這架飛機在距離機場西南約40英里的科特羅島上墜毀。

The mechanic has only been identified as a 29-year-old man from Pierce County, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer tweeted.

警長髮言人埃德·特羅耶爾發推稱，目前僅能確認該機械工爲皮爾斯郡的一名29歲男子。

"It is believed the mechanic's lack of flying skills led to the crash," Troyer said.

特羅耶爾表示：“據稱該機械工缺乏飛行技能，因此導致了墜機事故。”

In a tweet, Alaska Airlines said a Horizon Air Q400 turboprop aircraft that was involved in an unauthorized takeoff around 8 p.m. local time had crashed.

阿拉斯加航空公司在推文中稱，一架Horizon Air Q400渦輪螺旋槳飛機於當地時間晚上8點左右未經授權起飛。

Normal operations at the airport were interrupted for a time by the unauthorized takeoff but have resumed, the airport said in its tweet.

西雅圖-塔科馬國際機場方面在其推文中表示，飛機未經授權起飛一度造成機場中斷其正常運行，但現已恢復正常。