Skyjacking: An unhappy employee at the Seattle airport last night hijacked an empty Horizons Airlines twin prop and later crashed it, killing himself. For a while, he was being chased by fighter jets while doing stunts with the plane.

Over the radio the man said, “I’ve got a lot of people that care about me. It’s going to disappoint them to hear that I did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one them. Just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, I guess. Never really knew it until now.”

The Trumpster Fire: Trouble with Turkey; contempt of court; NFL kneels again; the madam speaks; and so does Omarosa.

The NFL pre-season opened with football players kneeling once again in protest during the National Anthem and the President isn’t happy. He tweeted, “Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their ‘outrage’ at something that most of them are unable to define.”

We’re guessing that they can all define racism, which is what they are protesting and which the President doesn’t seem to understand any more than how to fight a forest fire.

President Trump said he’s doubling tariffs on Turkish steel to 50 percent and 20 percent for aluminum.  He appears to be acting in retaliation for Turkey’s refusal to release an American pastor, Andrew Brunson, who was arrested in a roundup after a failed coup attempt in 2016.

The tariff effectively puts Turkey out of the US steel market and the already-sliding value of the Turkish lira dropped 20 percent on the news. “Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!” Trump tweeted.

In the Russia investigation, a federal judge held an associate of Trump protégé Roger Stone in contempt of court for failing to appear in front of a grand jury. Andrew Miller’s lawyer told reporters that he intentionally failed to show so he could challenge the constitutionality of the entire Special Counsel investigation.

The investigators seem to be circling the colorful Roger Stone. Former “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, a friend of Stone’s, was called to testify. She’s the one who booked hookers for disgraced NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer. It’s a small town.

Robert Mueller’s team also subpoenaed comedian and radio personality Randy Credico. He may have been the conduit from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Stone and the Trump campaign. To lay out a speculative diagram for you: Russian hackers>Democratic Party emails>Julian Assange>Wiklieaks>Randy Credico>Roger Stone>Trump campaign.

Amid all this, former Trump aide and reality show star Omarosa Manigault claims in her soon-to-be-published book that Trump is an outright racist. She says she once heard a long-rumored outtake from The Apprentice in which Trump used the n-word. She also claims she was offered a $15,000 a month job with the 2020 Trump campaign to keep her silence after she was fired from the White House.

Omarosa? Silent?

Oh, Canada: Four people died yesterday, including two police officers, in a shooting in Fredericton, Canada, the capital of New Brunswick. One person who also was wounded was arrested. That kind of violence is rare in New Brunswick.

The Roundup: A San Francisco jury awarded $289 million to a former school groundskeeper who claimed Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer left him dying of cancer. — Firefighters are struggling to save homes in Lake Elsinore, Calif., north of Los Angeles. Three of the largest fires in California history are currently burning. — North Korea says it wants the US to declare an official end to the Korean war before dismantling its nuclear arsenal. That was not part of the agreement reached in Singapore.

A Matter of Degrees: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced plans to scrap the Obama-era regulation that for-profit colleges must prove their graduates are able to get decent jobs with their degrees.

For-profit colleges are basically loan  mills. The only qualification for acceptance is whether you can get federal loans to pay your fees. Hundreds of thousands of graduates have found their degrees to be useless in the job market.

DeVos instead says she plans to put all colleges, both accredited academic and for-profit schools, on an equal footing. She said the education department would publish statistical information about all schools, including earnings after graduation, completion rates, cost, and accreditation.

DeVos said in a statement, “This administration is working to ensure students have transparent, meaningful information about all colleges and all programs.” In other words, she’s no longer regulating the loan mills.

Dept. of Corrections: Yesterday we accidentally re-ran the obituary for Vincent Musetto, the former NY Post editor who wrote one of the most famous headlines in newspaper history. It’s still a good story, but he died in 2015.

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