“I’ve never heard of it, ever,” said Mike Boyd, an aviation consultant in Colorado,air max 2011 shoes on Wednesday. “Not a lot of people know how to fly. This is unprecedented because it was a pilot. It wasn’t a random act. It was a pilot who wanted to steal an airplane.”
In separate interviews, the two airline pilots — who were not authorized to identify themselves because of the sensitivity of the case — said they had never heard of a similar occurrence in the U.S. air max 1 saleThere have been thefts of smaller, personal aircraft, they added, but to their knowledge nobody had ever managed to steal a passenger jet.
“Psychological screening on pilots is so thorough that it’s unlikely that you’d have this sort of thing,” buy nike freeone of the pilots said.
Details of how Hedglin pulled off the unusual heist were still incomplete Wednesday.
Marissa Snow, a spokeswoman for St. George-based SkyWest, air max 2009said Hedglin was placed on administrative leave Friday after the airline was contacted by Colorado Springs police about the slaying.
Colorado Springs police said they quickly identified Hedglin as their suspect and went so far as to contact SkyWest and have them deactivate the man’s access cards in the event he showed up at a company facility.
Police spokeswoman Barbara Miller said Wednesday that investigators found that Hedglin worked part of the time for SkyWest in St. George and had family in the area.
Snow declined to say whether Hedglin was familiar with the new St. George Municipal Airport, which opened in January 2011,Nike Free Run Shoes adding that she could not discuss his employment because it was a personnel matter. Snow said that Hedglin’s access cards were deactivated.