Off-duty pilot who 'tried to crash plane' while high on mushrooms makes wild confession

Flight crew members successfully subdued Joseph Emerson after he tried to disable the aircraft's engines, and the plane was ...

Off-duty pilot who tried to cut flight's engines sentenced to time served, supervised release

A federal judge has sentenced former Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson to time served and three years of supervised release for trying to cut a plane's engines during a flight in 2023. CBS News ...
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E195 collision captain pressured pilot to accept wrong take-off calculation

Serbian investigators have revealed that the captain of an Embraer 195 pressured the first officer to accept an incorrect take-off calculation after taxiing onto the wrong runway intersection at ...
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United Airlines pilot calls ‘Mayday’ as engine fails moments after take-off for trans-Atlantic flight: audio

Anxiety-inducing audio captured a United Airlines pilot calling “Mayday” when one of its engines failed moments after taking off for a trans-Atlantic flight. “Failure, engine failure, left engine,” ...
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WATCH: Pilot arrested on DUI charge just before flight set to take off

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Airport police in Georgia released body camera footage of a pilot's January arrest on a DUI charge as he was making pre-flight checks for a Southwest Airlines flight. David Allsop, 52, ...