An off-duty pilot seated in the cockpit unsuccessfully tried to shut down a plane's engines midflight and is now charged with 83 counts of attempted murder.
Alaska Airlines Flight 2059 was flying from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco on Sunday when a passenger onboard unsuccessfully tried to "disrupt the operation of the engines." The 76-seat Embraer 175 plane was operated by Alaska Airlines subsidiary Horizon Air. The flight left Everett at 5:23 p.m. local time and emergency landed in Portland an hour later.
