Almost two years after off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson tried to shut off a plane’s engine mid-flight, the California man has pleaded guilty to related charges in Portland, Oregon, as ...

Joseph Emerson, the off-duty pilot who tried to stop a plane mid-flight, was convicted Friday on 83 counts of reckless endangering another person in a Multnomah County Circuit Court as well as one ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit pleaded guilty or no-contest to all charges against him ...

Ex-Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson will plead no contest to charges related to an October 2023 incident in which he tried to cut the engines of a Horizon Air flight while he was high on mushrooms ...