Former pilot who tried to shut down engines on flight sentenced in federal case Joseph Emerson pleaded guilty to interfering with flight crew members during a 2023 flight and was sentenced in federal ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit will serve no prison time, a federal judge ruled Monday, ...
Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down a commercial plane's engines midflight in 2023 while traveling off duty in the cockpit's jump seat, was sentenced Monday in ...