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SkyWest pilot takes jet, shoots self
Brian Hedglin was wanted in connection with his girlfriend’s fatal stabbing
Brian Joseph Hedglin, a SkyWest pilot suspected of killing his girlfriend, broke into the St. George Municipal airport in Utah on Tuesday, stole a plane which he was unable to control and shot himself to death in the aircraft, officials have said. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that Hedglin was on administrative leave since the discovery of the body of Cristina Cornejo, who was found stabbed to death on Friday in Colorado Springs. Hedglin was a suspect but he had not been formally charged.
A police officer patrolling the airport entered the terminal to investigate after he found an abandoned motorcycle near the perimeter fence. He saw the aircraft, a Bombadier CRJ-200 with several wrecked cars around it, entered and found Hedglin dead of an apparently self-inflicted gun-shot to the head
The SkyWest jet was a small aircraft used in regional flights. Local authorities say that SkyWest had deactivated the pilot’s access cards as soon as police contacted them. Hedglin, however, got into the airport by scaling a perimeter fence. TSA spokeswoman Jonella Culmer told AP that they were "currently reviewing perimeter compliance" at the St. George Municipal Airport.
SkyWest Airlines, a regional airline headquartered in Utah, operates about 1,800 flights a day to 162 airports in North America. Its carrier partners include United, Delta, US Airways and Alaska Airlines.
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