About an hour into his unauthorized flight on a stolen Alaska Airlines commercial aircraft, ground crew agent Richard “Beebo” Russell—the subject of Hulu’s new #SKYKING documentary—voices his surprise at the lack of meaningful conversation between him and the FAA officials on his radio channel.
“I think this is part of the reason why I decided to do something so extreme. Everything’s just business all the time,” Russell confesses. “Even when you’re hanging out with people, it’s just business. Those real close personal moments are just so few and far between. Yeah. It sucks. I wouldn’t mind just shooting the shit with you guys. But it’s all business.”
When I heard that audio in the #SKYKING documentary—which began streaming on Hulu on Tuesday—I was struck with an alarming, unshakeable thought: Richard Russell stole a plane because he didn’t know how else to talk to people. Soon after that confession, Russell intentionally
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