Passengers Describe Seeing Pilot Cuffed After Allegedly Trying to Kill Engines
KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco/YouTubePassengers onboard an Alaska Airlines flight Sunday have described seeing an off-duty pilot being handcuffed after he allegedly tried to shut off the plane’s engines mid-flight. Joseph Emerson, 44, was arrested after the flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco was diverted to Portland after he allegedly attempted to pull a handle in the cockpit that would have shut down the fuel supply to the aircraft’s engines. Passenger Bailey Beck told SFGate he saw a