Hero flight crew thwarted pilot attempting to crash plane

PORTLAND, Oregon, October 23, 2023—An off-duty airplane pilot onboard Alaska Airlines flight 2059, leaving Everett’s Seattle Paine Field International Airport (PAE) for San Francisco, is facing 167 charges after attempting to disrupt the plane’s engines Sunday evening forcing an emergency landing in Portland. The off-duty pilot, identified as 44-year-old Joseph D. Emerson, was taken into […]