The off-duty pilot has been charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after attempting to shut off the engines of an Alaska Airlines flight on Sunday.
A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight on which an off-duty pilot attempted to kill the plane's engines has recalled how the suspect, Joseph Emerson, 'looked dead in the eyes' as he was being escorted off the aircraft by police.Emerson, 44, had been traveling on the flight deck between Everett, Washington, and San Francisco, California, on Sunday when he 'unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the operation of the engines,' the airline confirmed in a statement on Monday night.
'Alex Wood, another passenger, told ABC News that the pilot had announced 'a disturbance in the cockpit,' but added: 'It was very professional, handled very calmly, and we didn't really know what was going on until we landed.'Alaska Airlines said Emerson, of Pleasant Hill in northern California, had engaged a fire suppression system designed to cut fuel supply to the engines, each of which is individually controlled by a T-handle.
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