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24-10-2023, 02:05 PM
BY SARAH FORTINSKY - 10/23/23 2:10 PM ET
An off-duty pilot was charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly tried to shut off the engines of a plane mid-flight while flying in the extra seat in the cockpit Sunday.
Joseph David Emerson, a 44-year-old pilot, was also charged with 83 counts of reckless endangerment and one count of endangering an aircraft early Monday morning
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The flight departed from Everett, Wash., at 5:23 p.m. local time and was headed to San Francisco when the two pilots managed to subdue the off-duty pilot and divert the plane to land in Portland, Ore., as a result of a “credible threat,”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-...r-charged/
An off-duty pilot was charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly tried to shut off the engines of a plane mid-flight while flying in the extra seat in the cockpit Sunday.
Joseph David Emerson, a 44-year-old pilot, was also charged with 83 counts of reckless endangerment and one count of endangering an aircraft early Monday morning
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The flight departed from Everett, Wash., at 5:23 p.m. local time and was headed to San Francisco when the two pilots managed to subdue the off-duty pilot and divert the plane to land in Portland, Ore., as a result of a “credible threat,”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-...r-charged/
