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An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot has been charged with over 80 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly attempted to shut off a plane's engines midflight on Sunday, causing the flight to divert to Portland. Flight 2059 took off from Everett, Washington, and was bound for San Francisco, Alaska Airlines said in a statement.
I think he’s subdued,' the pilot of the plane told air traffic control. 'Other than that we want law enforcement as soon as we get on the ground and parked.” Typically, off-duty airline pilots sit in the jump seat of the flight deck behind the pilots to fly back to their home base if seats are available. After landing, Joseph David Emerson, 44, was arrested by Port of Portland police.
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