Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot indicted for trying to crash flight

PORTLAND, Oregon: This week, a district attorney said that an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who attempted to disable a jet's engines during an October flight was indicted by a Multnomah County, Oregon, grand jury.

In a statement, the lawyer of Joseph Emerson said he was charged with one count of endangering an aircraft and 83 other counts of recklessly endangering another person.

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