SAN FRANCISCO: Two military F-15 jets were scrambled late Friday (Saturday in Manila) after a "suicidal" airline worker stole and later crashed an empty passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport, local officials said.

Local authorities quickly ruled out terrorism as a motive for the incident, and said the F-15s "were not involved in the crash."

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