He was booked into jail on 83 counts of attempted murder yesterday in Portland.
PORTLAND: An off-duty pilot accused of trying to shut off the engines of an Alaska Airlines jet on a weekend flight over the Pacific Northwest was due to make his first court appearance today in Portland, Oregon, where he faced 83 counts of attempted murder.
Emerson was off-duty at the time and riding as a validated “jump seat” passenger in the cockpit of the plane – a routine mode of transport for commercial airline pilots hitching flights back home or to their next assignment, according to the Federal Aviation Administration . Formal charges were expected to be filed today in Multnomah County court in Portland, where the suspect was due to appear for an afternoon arraignment and enter a plea, the spokesman added.
The FAA told US airlines in a notice seen by Reuters that the off-duty pilot had sought to disable the engines of the Embraer 175 by attempting to activate the engines’ fire-suppression system while the plane was at cruise altitude.
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