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Off-duty pilot charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to shut down jet’s engine midair

By Misty Severi
Published October 23, 2023 6:59pm ET
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Off-duty pilot charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to shut down jet’s engine midair
An off-duty Alaska airline pilot has been charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly attempted to shut down a plane’s engine in the middle of its flight on Sunday. Joseph David Emerson was in the jump seat of the plane, near the on-duty pilot, when he attempted to deploy the fire suppression […]

An off-duty Alaska airline pilot has been charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly attempted to shut down a plane’s engine in the middle of its flight on Sunday.

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