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An off-duty pilot who tried to disable the engines of a plane bound from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco has been charged with attempted murder.

Joseph David Emerson, 44, was arrested on Sunday in Portland, where the twin-engine aircraft landed safely after it was diverted during what the airline called a "credible security threat" on a flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco. Emerson was off-duty at the time and riding as a validated "jump seat" passenger in the cockpit of the plane - a routine mode of transport for commercial airline pilots hitching flights back home or to their next assignment, according...