Airport officials on Saturday said a young ground service agent who stole an empty plane from Seattle-Tacoma airport the prior evening did so “legitimately” before taking it on a flight and crashing to his death.

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“He had access legitimately” to the plane said Mike Ehl, director of aviation operations at the airport in the US state of Washington, adding that “no security violations were committed.”