Con Air: Off-Duty Pilot Charged With 83 Counts Of Attempted Murder For Trying To Turn Off Plane Engines Mid-Flight

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Oh HELL the f**ok naw!

When you have a worry of flying this story will do completely nothing to consolation your nervousness. In line with ABCNews, an off-duty airline pilot kirked the f**ok out and tried to kill a whole flight of passengers. Joseph David Emerson was sitting within the flight deck bounce seat, contained in the cockpit, when he tried to close down the airplane’s engines by pulling the hearth extinguisher handles. He was promptly hemmed up by the flight crew and handcuffed to his seat.

The Alaskan Airways flight was en route from Everett, Washington to San Francisco and was subsequently diverted to Portland the place Emerson was taken into custody. On account of his malevolent mayhem, he was charged with 83 counts of tried homicide, one other 83 counts of reckless endangerment, one misdemeanor, and one felony depend of endangering an plane.

Simply moments earlier than the incident, Emerson was heard saying one thing to the equal of, “I’m not proper” earlier than he kicked out and tried to kill everyone. Alaska Airways says the employees “shortly responded” and the engines by no means really misplaced energy.

Aubrey Gavello, a passenger aboard the flight, stated that neither she nor the opposite passengers had any thought in regards to the chaos that had erupted till an attendant made an announcement over the loudspeaker.

“We didn’t know something was occurring till the flight attendant obtained on the loudspeaker and made an announcement that there was an emergency scenario and the airplane wanted to land instantly. … About quarter-hour later, she obtained again on and stated that there was a medical emergency.”

As soon as the airplane arrived in Portland, cops escorted Emerson off the airplane and an attendant made one other announcement that the off-duty pilot had suffered a “psychological breakdown”. The Federal Aviation Administration launched a press release to reassure the general public that this incident was not associated to the occasions occurring within the center east between Israel and Hamas.

Scary stuff.