Joseph David Emerson was being held on 83 counts each of attempted murder and reckless endangerment and one count of endangering an aircraft after the incident.
An off-duty pilot riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in mid-flight and had to be subdued by the crew, a pilot flying the plane told air traffic controllers.
The airline said in a statement that the captain and co-pilot “quickly responded, engine power was not lost and the crew secured the aircraft without incident.” Alaska said no weapons were involved.Sunday’s incident occurred on a Horizon Air Embraer 175 carrying 80 passengers, some of them lap children, and four crew members. The plane left Everett, Washington, at 5.23pm local time and landed in Portland an hour later.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was helping law enforcement investigations, but declined further comment about the incident. The FAA, in an alert to airlines, said a jump-seat passenger tried to disable the engines by deploying the engine fire-suppression system. Jeffrey Price, an aviation-security expert at Metropolitan University of Denver, said airlines must approve people who sit in the jump seat, but the pilots working the flight can deny access.
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