AGI – An off-duty pilot attempted to crash a plane with 80 passengers on board. Sunday evening the man who sat in the cockpit of one Alaska Airlines flight From Everett, Washington, to San Francisco, he attempted to shut down the plane’s engines behind the captain and first officer. Joseph David Emerson, 44, was stopped without incident and the plane was diverted to Portland, Oregon.
Alaska Airlines said the off-duty pilot was riding on the cockpit step when he “unsuccessfully attempted to stop the engines from operating.” Crew members of Alaska Airlines Flight 2059 reported the incident to air traffic control. In a recording of a communication with air traffic control, one of the pilots said: “The guy who tried to shut off the engines is now no longer in the cockpit and does not appear to be causing any problems.”
The flight, operated by Horizon Air, was scheduled to depart at 5:25 p.m. local time and arrive in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. However, The flight was diverted to Portland and took off from there at 7:18 p.m. to its intended destination. The incident is currently being investigated by Portland Police and theFBI.
In a statement, the FBI assured that “there is no threat associated with this incident.” even there Federal Aviation Administration U.S. airlines assured that the incident was “in no way related to current world events.”
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