2025-11-17 20:46:36 CET

Pilot who tried to cut flight's engines gets time served, supervised release

Joseph Emerson tried to shut down a commercial plane's engines midflight in 2023 while traveling off duty in the cockpit's jump seat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-emerson-alaska-airlines-pilot-sentence/

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