2025-11-17 21:22:37 CET

Ex-pilot who tried to cut plane's engines pleads guilty in federal court

Joseph Emerson was subdued by the flight crew after trying to cut the engines of a Horizon Air flight from Washington state to San Francisco.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-emerson-alaska-airlines-pilot-pleads-guilty/

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