Off-duty pilot charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to crash Alaska Airlines flight
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- An Alaska Airlines flight diverted to Portland, Oregon, Sunday after an off-duty pilot in the cockpit unsuccessfully tried to shut down the plane's engines midflight, according to officials. The suspect, Joseph Emerson, was taken into custody by police and charged with attempted murder after the plane landed safely at Portland's airport, officials confirmed to CBS News. Joshua Skule, former FBI executive assistant director for intelligence, joined CBS News to discuss the incident.
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Bravo to the crew for subduing him and safely landing the plane, and the pilot VERY professionally talked to ATC about the situation with a steady voice despite the incident. Level headed ability in a crisis/emergency, well done to the crew for handling this and saving lives.
I suppose they need to change airline rules and make the cockpit off limits to anyone NOT on Duty or relief crew. This is the second time something like this happened. Good thing that FedEx flight was a cargo flight. They had to use some pretty wild maneuvering, the ATC would have fits trying to keep the required flight limits. One pilot had to retire on medical disability, the other pilot needed months in the hospital to heal.
@@drmayeda1930second time in 29 years, with approx 100,000 flights in a single day globally = ban off-duty jumpseaters? Makes total sense
It’s so scary that one person can make such devastating choices for hundreds
Flashing back to Flight 9525 in 2015. A German pilot with severe depression crashed an Airbus with 144 people onboard into a mountainside in the French Alps. There were no survivors.
This easily could have been just as bad
He had meticulously planned that crash and locked the PIC out of the cockpit when he went to use the bathroom. Changes were made after that crash to prevent it from happening again. But there was an incident on a FedEx cargo plane when an off duty employee was hitching a ride and attacked the pilot and copilot but they fought back and landed safely. With serious life threatening injuries. They'll probably change jumpseat rules now.
@@madreepthat was Federal Express Flight 705 back in 1994 where someone was trying to hijack and crash a cargo plane for an insurance paycheck for his family but the crew fought back while they were severely injured. One was fighting back by using the aircraft to use tight turns and dives that the aircraft was not designed to do almost breaking it apart to help the crew and disarm the hijacker. They managed to successfully land the plane even though it was damaged a really terrible situation but came out with a happy ending. Though the pilots weren’t able to fly any planes sadly due to their injuries but all of them were awarded with the highest ranking badge ever received in aviation history. The hijacker was sentenced life in prison.
Exactly.
When an airline pilot has to “Deadhead”, fly back to another airport as a passenger, he has to fly in the passenger compartment. If the flight is fully booked up with no open seat, the deadhead pilot is allowed to ride on the jump seat with the permission of the captain. Normally, this is no big deal, having an extra set of hand in the cockpit in an emergency. That's the reason you see pilots in uniform waiting at the gate to the plane, if there is no empty seat he'll ask the captain if he could ride in the jump seat.
Oh nevermind I see now they're just showing a 737 but it was a smaller plane like an Embraer which as u said was full so he was able to sit in the jump seat..I was actually thinking that too that the 737 they're showing might just be a generic photo
To clarify an airline pilot as a “Deadhead”, he is flying to another airport as a passenger, he has to fly in the passenger compartment and his ticket is paid by the airline. He is also paid a travel rate by the company for traveling to pickup a flight in another city. A pilot commuting is traveling from his home to the hub he is paid to fly out of and is called a commuting pilot. He is not paid by the airline for his travel time or given a company paid ticket, he has to catch rides if there is an empty seat available on the flight or ride in the jump seat.
@@reecom9884 thank u much for the knowledge
Also, there have been quite a few incidents where that off-duty pilot was needed in an emergency and helped save the plane and it's passengers!
@@reecom9884deadhead is when you are traveling on company business. Jumpseating is when you are traveling to and from work and are not working.
Lucky he wasn't piloting his own plane when he decided to go postal.
Yes, indeed. So it became another FedEx Flight 705 Case - but it could have become another Germanwings Flight 9525 Case.
Entire segment could be summarized with: “pretty scary, we don’t know why he did it yet, probably won’t happen again”
Well that’s gonna change jumpseat rules. This could have been so much worse. Bravo to the crew for handling this with out incidence.
I hope not. My local hub "owner" is 100% booked up on many flights. If jump seats aren't available we'll see cancelled flights for months.
I doubt it. You can't regulate hidden crazy people without imposing ridiculous rules on rest of society.
No need to change the rules. These types of incidents are extremely rare, and almost non existent.
No.. changing the rules isn’t going to help anything. This was a pilot! He flies planes himself! He could have taken a plane full of passengers to their death on his own plane! So making them sit in the back isn’t going to keep anyone safe in the long run. This is terrifying and it’s why I refuse to fly.
@@bobby1970 They may need to review the how and why this happened plus what snapped this guy. An ounce of prevention......
Incredibly scary 😮
nightmare fuel
Damn thats crazy.
Hopefully these pilots report eachother if mentality unstable and treated and those held accountable for those intending on harming innocent people
Fortunately, these kinds of events are extremely rare in the aviation industry.
How concerned should we be? A ridiculous question. Useless fear-mongering.
Thankfully everyone is safe ❤
Good thing it wasn't a flight he was actually working on as a pilot.
I heard he was scheduled to fly another airliner soon thereafter. 🤷♂️
I'll will never fly again.... No way.
Look up FedEx Flight 705, another incident where a jump seating pilot tried to commandeer the aircraft with the intention of crashing it into FedEx facilities in Memphis. Granted, this was a cargo flight, but the media is reporting this has never happened before, which is false. Calloway severely injured the crew, and put the DC-10 into a dive which over-stressed the airframe, which was written-off. Calloway is serving a life sentaece, and none of the injured crew were ever able to fly again.
This is scary. Something similar happened in 1994, when Auburn Calloway who was also a Pilot tried to crash a plane, the plane was a FedEx plane
if you want to off yourself, off yourself and only yourself, don't drag a bunch of innocent people down with you...
I bet he won't get to fly for free an a jump seat any more!
Or at all for that matter
"Mental instability" - OK, sure... gotta throw in the kitchen-sink of excuses. What about "just angry and wanted to end his life and everyone else's"?
Thats mentally unstable,,
@@berkshiredave9766 exactly lol
This could have been much worse.
Wow. Very insightful.
@@Slippindiscit’s a harmless comment. get a hobby and fix your own miserable life before you comment again.
Pilot going to get life for that
No. He won't.
This is ridiculous…the pilot seems uncertain about the guy once he was out of the cockpit…a passenger reported (another video) that the guy just walked to the back of the plane??? Why was he not totally subdued???
The first responsibility of the pilots is to fly the aircraft. Once the safety of the flight deck was assured, the pilots could let the flight attendants handle him so they could get back to their jobs. They did get him under control, so I don’t see why anyone wants to argue against success.
What the heck, LOCK HIM UP FOREVER.... no questions asked , just lock him up..
No - you have to have a trial. Even though the Democrats run America we still have due process. Thanks.
@porter9494agreed. it sounds like he immediately knew he messed up. And voluntarily walked out of the cockpit, and asked to be handcuffed. Most people don’t understand what 40+ hours of no sleep will do to your mental state. He should have asked for time off to sleep
I smell a new regulation, at least on Alaska. Only flight crew on the flight deck, no deadheads allowed.
If you think about it that wouldn't change anything. The guy who was jumpseating had a type rating for the A320, 737, Dash 8, and CRJ series. If he wanted to he could have done it as the pilot flying on one of his own flights. Keeping pilots out of the cockpit is kind of impossible..
No jump seaters
This is the reality. When you board a plane and the door is closed, you don't know what's the mindset of the pilot(s) is. You are at their mercy. If that pilot decides they're none with life, you're going out with them. Scary reality! 😨
Same goes with bus, Uber and cab drivers. If you’re at the wrong place and the wrong time, it’s inevitable.
Miserable way to look at life. But you do you.
@@msromike123 There are not in a locked room and the certainty isn't the same.
@@Victor-ze3sdsame case, doesn't matter if it's a locked room, in fact I would argue with two pilots it's less likely, a single pilot vehicle like a car or bus requires one quick twitch of the wheel to flip or crash it
That's why we at all times ensure there are atleast 2 crew members in the cockpit at all times. We NEVER let anyone have sole control over the aircraft
Can you imagine the tragic outcome if he had done this while he was a pilot on duty and waited for the other pilot to leave the cockpit for a moment and then turn off the engines and lock the cockpit doors?
He might have been trying to make Horizon air look bad
You don't have to imagine... It happened many times... GermanWings... and more recently China Eastern 737... It happened every where, and U.S. is not immune to it... Years ago there was a off-duty FedEx DC-10 pilot who tried to highjack and crash the plane for insurance money...
Imagine working hard to be a pilot and just to mess up like this. What a waste of opportunity
What about the people if the plane would crash on the ground
His mental state just nosedived. 🥁
I’m sorry, that was inappropriate. Those intrusive thoughts again 🤦♂️
I’d love to hear more. I’m not aviation expert but shouldn’t a skilled pilot be able to land a plane from 30,000 feet? And since this guy works for the airlines, surely he knew that this wouldn’t work?
There’s no possible explanation other than him being mentally unwell.
If you ask any pilot, a working engine probably would enhance a 30% success chance to 80% (I made these numbers up but given how many planes crashed after duel engine failure... I think these are reasonable figures.)
Can you not restart the engines if they get turned off?
@@zaram131You absolutely can.
I’m guessing the guy had a psychotic break.
Let's hope it's not another Germanwings Air incident if they find the off-duty pilot to be mentally insane.
kudos to the crew!! the ability to shut off engines mid air shouldnt be so easy.
That is extremely scary
Damn, this guy whipped out his crazy hose and decided to spray everyone. Thank God people shut it down. Even 20+ years after 9-11 Americans still have absolutely no tolerance for shenanigans with airplanes. Glad everyone is safe; hope prison has a good psychiatrist b/c this guy's gonna need it.
Oh sheet -- the next reaction will be over-reaction. Even though this was an active pilot who controlled his own aircraft the push will be on for eliminating jump-seat privileges.
New FAA rule coming in no off duty pilots in the cockpit from now on bet you
Makes no difference. Next flight he is captain on, he nosedives the plane. Makes absolutely no difference where he sits. He was still a pilot!
This was just like the attempted hijacking of Federal Express Flight 705 on April 7, 1994.
United airlines : we beat our customers
Alaska airlines : hold my beer
Wouldn’t that be attempted hijacking?
no
Wouldn't this be classified as terrorism?
no
Just one more reason not to fly
The guy was trying to discharge the fire bottles into the engines. It’s possible that could’ve prevented relight. 31,000 feet over that part of the state gives plenty of time and range to land. I fly in the Northwest. Between Everett / Seattle and Portland, there are plenty of landing options, including SeaTac, Olympia, Tacoma, Chehalis, then Portland. All less than 100 miles apart. All capable of handling an E175 jet which only needs maybe 3000 feet to land in an emergency.
Thank you Father 🙌🏼💜🙏🏼
I wonder if this man was on some kind of extreme mood-altering drug, possibly even a prescription medication that manifested a terrible side effect? No man or woman in their right mind would ever even CONSIDER such an action, much less attempt it. My best guess is that he had a secret life, possibly because he found the life he'd been given very boring. (He's right at that age.) But in that case, why not simply buy a Corvette?
He was....
The Richard Russell sequel we never expected...
Calling this a "Richard Russell sequel " is an embarrassment to Beebo....
We take pilots and cabin crew for granted, not appreciating their professionalism keeping us safe. They should be appreciated more, great job by this crew managing this situation 🇬🇧
This reminds me of EgyptAir flight 990. Fortunately, this scenario had a much different outcome.
So THAT's what happened...
I was on that flight
If you could see inside his mind you would realize he's completely sane
I think society in america as a whole should also be looked at seriously. It has seriously gone down-hill and could have triggered this.
2:00 literally nothing to do with national security, lmao wtf
*You are so clueless! Any attack on commercial aviation can / could be potentially linked to a terrorist trend or threat. STHU.*
@@justsnappy lol no it isn't. this is just a crazy employee it has nothing to do with terrorism
@@chocolatecoveredgummybears ok. Now you’re just being dense.
@@justsnappy only dense person here is you buddy lol
@@chocolatecoveredgummybears how’d you know I hate being called “buddy”?
He will be in prison for the rest of his life , or death penalty ,, hes no longer a pilot
He will not get a death penalty. I don’t expect he will get a life sentence, either. He might get a lifetime ban from flying on a commercial airline, and will certainly lose his certification as a commercial pilot.
Well Alaska Airlines stock just dropped 90%.
Going postal?
That plane took off from the airport close to my house. The airport is only like 15-20mins away. If that. It’s not that large of an airport. It’s actually new. It’s on the same air strip with the Boeing factory. The world’s largest building by volume. Here in Everett, WA. Not so fun fact OceanGate was based in Everett until the implosion. So Everett also had 2 awful tragedies in a year.
[0:21] The dude's subdued, dude
Why did he do this?
I feel like something is definitely missing...
Maybe if someone had been aware of his posts on X they could've stepped in. To me, it sounds like he's tired and working a lot.
I think the dude was yelling “ I’m A Pirate”!!!
“ Im only Praying around “!!!
He’s not the stand-up kind of pilots that I’ve known that Fly for Alaska.
And this guy piloted planes before with passengers on it- how chilling
This is scary… We need to look into who this guy is, this brings back memories of 9/11.
People are going NUTS! Name of pilot????
That’s Horizon not Alaska. Get your facts straight!
Horizon flies as Alaska Airlines. The flights are listed as Alaska flights, and the aircraft have Alaska livery.
what the hell??
Seems likely that there could be likely a medical cause for his sudden behavior change when reflecting his comments and reaching for something.
I really wonder was going on in that mans head.
Alaska airline again? Last time there were a guy who hijack the plane and suicide along with the plane..
The two incidents are unrelated.
It was Horizon Air....commuter
A regional airline. Everett to SF is not really a commuter run.
@@GH-oi2jfhorizon air is part of Alaska Air Group flying under the Alaska banner on. Pretty long West Coast route in this case
Dude just ruin the jumpseat for other pilots.
Off duty pilots sometimes ride in the cockpit to aid in case of an emergency, not to create the emergency! 😥
It was an Horizon Airlines flight. An E-175 regional jet.
Horizon flights are listed as Alaska Airlines flights. They are a part of Alaska.
@@GH-oi2jf I know that they are listed as Alaska flights, but both Airlines are owned by the Alaska Air Group, and it was a Horizon flight.
Maybe don’t allow off duty employees into the cockpit.
That is another glitch in programming if it had worked without a fire warning coming from the engine, you don't allow both engines to shut down if there are no fire warnings triggered. You might have to do it you should be forced to enter some verification of this on the computer terminal by the pilot.
An engine can be on fire while fire indications did not trigger due to a failed detection system, or parameters not met. (Usually it's the temperature in exhaust, but the fire can be elsewhere, like auxiliary equipment/generator, maybe fuel lines ruptured in the pylons.)
It can even be regular engine controls got stuck and failed to close, in those cases the fire handles can be used as back up (pull to close the valves, turn to discharge single use fire retardant bottles)
What was he thinking?
His name isn't Josef Islam. just a guy with some serious issues, and now some bigger issues.Flying is still the safest way to travel. dont read too much into this
What is domestic terrorism?
Germanwings.
Bro was apparently trippin on mushrooms. You never fly on hallucinogens, never. Bad idea buddy. That’s a bad trip waiting to happen.
WOW! This plane flew out from Paine Field, just down I-5 from us here in Tulalip. My son usually flies out from Paine when he travels. This is really disturbing. I hope they fill us in on more info later as they find out more, like maybe the cause of this man's mental break.
I do not know about this, but maybe better pay?
Thank God I don't fly anymore after WTC incident
While the government does worse
😂 That airline work will make a normal person insane! 🤣
To tell you the truth, yes
Still better than flying American Airlines. I’ll take my chances with Alaska
Ok question, why was a off duty pilot sitting in the cockpit?
We will utilize a jump seat so we can use it to travel. We pilots that commute usually use it to go home or get to work. Sometimes for leisure travel. It’s usually a last resort to get on a plane that’s full. Usually as a jump seater, you are the unofficial third crew member.
San Francisco has gone to the doggies.
WTF
Would be curious for an aviation expert to weigh in on whether the plan would have crashed the plane if it had worked -- obviously impossible to know for sure, but would be interesting to hear an opinion on whether the pilots would have had enough time and altitude to attempt a dead stick landing at a nearby airport
Hi there, I flew 20 years as an air force pilot, and currently with a major US airline. The jumpseat pilots actions are very concerning as far as wondering why he would do that. It is truly bizarre. As far as operational safety is concerned, if he had managed to shut down an engine, or even both, the pilots at the controls would have simply restarted them. We train for this, but it's one of those one in a million type events that 99.9% of pilots will never have to do except in a simulator their whole career. This pilot basically threw his career away and potentially faces jail time. However, no sane pilot would have done something like this so it is highly likely something significantly unusual was happening with him. The media loves to hype up events like these and play on people's fear and lack of understanding in order to boost ratings, which I find enormously unprofessional. We as pilots take safety seriously and paramount in all of our decision making, to the point where sometimes difficult conservative calls are made that we understand will be inconvenient to passengers. For us as operators nothing trumps a safe operation, meaning all the bean counting and financial considerations management is concerned with have no place on the flight deck.
Edit: just read in another article that it was the fire handles the guy pulled. Yeah, that can be bad. On most jet aircraft it is irreversible. In this case the crew quickly reset them before it was too late. Shutting down the engines can be done in a few different ways (direct and indirect). Good on the crew acting quickly.
Of course, at 30'000 they have close to 100 miles to look for a place to land.
I would assume that they'll have full electrical power and with that hydraulics since APU should still be available to them.
@@davidbuxton3114you can’t restart the engines.
@dav34 It depends. Every aircraft is different when it comes to what exactly happens when the fire handles are pulled. Some can be restarted while others disconnect parts that are irreversible in flight. In this case the airline spokesperson said the crew quickly reset the fire handles before reaching a state in the engine, fuel supply, and fire suppression where things may have been more dire. I don't know the specifics of this type jet aircraft.
@@dav34 And this is based off of how many years of experience piloting commercial aircraft? I've watched a lot of Mayday! Air Disasters and even I know that pilots can restart the engines. One person in the jump seat vs. two pilots at the controls has essentially zero chance of crashing a plane from cruising altitude. The suicidal pilot in the Germanwings crash was only successful because he locked the other pilot out of the cockpit, so he had full control of the plane. There was another incident, I believe it was in Africa, that had a similar scenario to Germanwings.
Check his bags for a bright red Maga hat.
This incident was not political.
Complaining about dow Jones trance port
Poor man slipped a cog
What abf the other airlines uts tried to disrupt n scramble
Let's see what his mental stability check says
hopefully you need a password/ code to enter such info- cutoff engine at midflite? doubtful... but excellent job crew!
That wouldn’t be a good idea
As a pilot, no. Those fire handles can shut the engines down immediately for the event of an engine fire. The levers shut the engine down by shutting fuel off otherwise the fuel would just keep feeding the fire and cause a potentially catastrophic situation.
Ok that's some scarry shi#
This is Domestic Terrorism that failed. What caused this pilot to do this? Mentally Disturbed or Mental Imbalance! It reminds me of the missing and disappearance of Malaysia Airlines.
"a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." - so no
Wow
Thank god this guy wasn't carrying a gun! In the US and only the US; pilots are able if they so desire, to carry a weapon. I' am not sure what the rules are for dead heading pilots if they have their gun with them.
You can't just carry "if you want to". They're FFDO's and the selection process seems to be pretty extensive.
Deadheading pilots have to go through security just like a regular passenger.
It's absolutely disgusting how the anchorwoman always tries to steer the conversation towards "ideological" issues - and we all know what she's referring to. This kind of selective reporting and sensationalist scaremongering is exactly why people distrust the media, and in these cases, rightfully so.
That was very on point and germaine. What’s your problem?
He obviously had some type of issue
Our border has been open for how long? How many people are here that we dont truly know? The middle east is flaring up..
He prolly was part of Hamas
Mentally treatment ghis dude was wackrd
Soul plane