The suspect, Joseph David Emerson, 44, was sitting in the flight deck jumpseat on Alaska Airlines flight 2059 operated by Horizon Air, heading to San Francisco Airport from Paine Field Airport in ...

Joseph David Emerson’s attorney entered not guilty pleas on his behalf. Photo: Dave Killen/Associated Press An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot accused of attempting to shut down an airplane’s ...

Joseph David Emerson, who was en route to fly another plane on Sunday, had not slept for 40 hours and had discussed using psychedelic mushrooms, according to a criminal complaint. At the time of ...

A Multnomah County, Ore., grand jury on Monday indicted an off-duty pilot on 83 counts of recklessly endangering another person and one count of endangering an aircraft, but determined that he ...