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Passenger attempted to take control of San Francisco-bound Alaska Airlines flight before being subdued
KSBW ^ | Oct 23, 2023

Posted on 10/23/2023 10:59:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Privacy Notice An Alaska Airlines passenger inside the cockpit attempted to seize control of a plane headed from a Seattle airport to San Francisco on Sunday, the airline said.

A pilot told air traffic controllers a person riding in the cockpit of flight 2059 attempted to turn off the aircraft's engines in flight. An airline's pilots, or pilots at other airlines, will occasionally ride a cockpit "jump seat" when traveling in an official capacity or commuting to another airport.

The passenger, who has not been named, was an off-duty pilot and has been arrested by Port of Portland Police Department, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at ksbw.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Alaska; US: California
KEYWORDS: activist; alaska; alaskaairlines; alaskanairlines; anotherpilot; california; covid; daveemerson; davidemerson; economics; emerson; engines; flight2059; flt2059; joeemerson; josephdavidemerson; josephemerson; jumpseat; labor; laborunions; pilot; portland; sanfrancisco; seattle; suicidal
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To: rktman
The passenger, who has not been named, was an off-duty pilot...

That seems to be the elephant in the room.

How many other pilots are similarly wired? Will they go off at the same time one day?

21 posted on 10/23/2023 11:24:12 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: aquila48

The passenger was Mo “Cooter” Ahmed...


22 posted on 10/23/2023 11:24:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: nickcarraway

3rd story I’ve read...All different FACTS!


23 posted on 10/23/2023 11:24:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AppyPappy

David Emerson.


24 posted on 10/23/2023 11:25:15 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: nickcarraway
Passenger attempted to take control of San Francisco-bound Alaska Airlines flight before being subdued

Did they make "passenger" sit outside for the rest of the flight?

25 posted on 10/23/2023 11:30:11 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: nickcarraway

Probably on SSRIs like that German pilot who dove the airliner into a mountain.


26 posted on 10/23/2023 11:30:40 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Wayne07

Two different threads listed different airlines too. I think they finally settled on Alaska Airlines.


27 posted on 10/23/2023 11:31:33 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: llevrok; PAR35
Horizon is Alaska’s regional, short distance airline.

With the slogan "Hey what's that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds..."

28 posted on 10/23/2023 11:42:41 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: aquila48

Salman Abedi Mohammed Salman Skyhook.

(Miss you, Rush!)


29 posted on 10/23/2023 11:43:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

30 posted on 10/23/2023 11:55:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: nickcarraway

I guess he finally figured out that the plane would land in San Francisco and he preferred to die.


31 posted on 10/23/2023 12:08:57 PM PDT by jdsteel (“PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke. )
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To: nickcarraway; Gnome1949
Total leftist pilot who was furloughed in the Covid-19 drawdown and begged the Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, to save aviation (i.e. his job).

It is a pretty good guess that he wasn't doing well in his new job in Alaska and wanted to crash this aircraft as a sick perverted protest.

32 posted on 10/23/2023 12:09:14 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: nickcarraway
"The passenger, who has not been named..."

The name would probably be a giveaway.

33 posted on 10/23/2023 12:15:43 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: AppyPappy

https://heavy.com/news/joseph-david-emerson/


34 posted on 10/23/2023 12:29:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Rummyfan

Yep.
Portland is a know hot bed or radicals.
The FBI totally ignored it and Intel helped cover it up.
“The Intel Seven”


35 posted on 10/23/2023 12:31:58 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: BenLurkin

There was a PSA flight in Ca in the 80’s where a ground worker boarded a plane with a gun and killed his former boss, who had just fired him. Then he went up to the cockpit and killed both pilots, then killed himself, leaving the plane to nosedive and kill all passengers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771

As a result, ALL CREW MEMBERS had to go through security from then on but NOT GROUND PERSONNEL.

So, look for some dumba$$ knee jerk reaction to deny all pilots access to the jumpsuit in commuting to or from work.

Because of ONE person.


36 posted on 10/23/2023 1:09:30 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: nickcarraway

Well...
We don’t know, maybe some of the passengers or crew were giving him the business...


37 posted on 10/23/2023 1:37:12 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: BenLurkin
"The guy’s a pilot. In the cockpit. Not a passenger."

Wrong. He was a jump seat passenger.

38 posted on 10/23/2023 2:45:31 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: nickcarraway

Headed to San Francisco? Maybe he had a lovers spat ...


39 posted on 10/24/2023 2:26:16 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Little Pig

Who is very, very active in airline labor issues.


40 posted on 10/24/2023 2:36:49 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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