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These still images taken from a Wholesale Electric Supply hangar surveillance camera last week at Texarkana Regional Airport FBO show the gunman and seconds later pilot Justen Spinks, who singlehandedly apprehended him without a shot being fired. © Justen Spinks, Wholesale Electric Supply

Tuesday, February 4 started out as a relatively normal morning for Justen Spinks, chief pilot for Wholesale Electric Supply’s flight department that is based at Signature Aviation at Texarkana Regional Airport (KTXK) on the Texas-Arkansas border. It was 7:30 a.m. and Spinks had just learned that the day’s scheduled flight in the company’s Cessna Citation XLS+ had been canceled.

“I was kind of getting ready to maybe head to the gym and call it a day since our flight canceled when I heard a lot of commotion,” he told AIN in an exclusive interview.

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