Off Duty Pilot Attempts To Crash Alaskan Airlines Plane

An off duty pilot traveling in the in cockpit “jump seat” attempted to down the plane by turning the engines off on a flight from Everett Washington to San Francisco. He was subdued and the plane was diverted to Portland.
Hopefully this will end the practice of allowing off duty employees to ride in the secure cockpits. Their convenience shouldn’t outweigh the passengers right to safety.
newtboysays...

From WIKI-
Horizon Air is an American regional airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, United States. The airline is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group and it is paid by fellow group member Alaska Airlines to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by Alaska Airlines. Planes operated by Horizon are co-branded as Alaska HORIZON in order to differentiate Horizon's planes from those operated by Alaska's other regional airline partner, SkyWest Airlines.

eric3579said:

Would love to here the cockpit recordings. So its Horizons pilots/ flight in an Alaskan airlines plane? Call me confused.

BSRsays...

Up voted for doing the finger work

newtboysaid:

From WIKI-
Horizon Air is an American regional airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, United States. The airline is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group and it is paid by fellow group member Alaska Airlines to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by Alaska Airlines. Planes operated by Horizon are co-branded as Alaska HORIZON in order to differentiate Horizon's planes from those operated by Alaska's other regional airline partner, SkyWest Airlines.

eric3579says...

Sounds like the dude momentarily lost his shit. Doesn't sound like he tried to "crash the plane". As of now, I haven't heard that that anywhere.

newtboysays...

The news said he took mushrooms days before the incident, trying to tie them together….nonsense. Mushroom trips last hours, not days.

They said he stood up and tried to pull the fire handles, which would have automatically shut down the engines, wrestled with the pilots until he was removed from the cockpit forcefully, then tried to open the emergency exit door and had to be restrained.
I have yet to hear his explanation, but in my estimation he tried twice to bring the plane down. He’s charged with over 180 attempted murder charges!

eric3579said:

Sounds like the dude momentarily lost his shit. Doesn't sound like he tried to "crash the plane". As of now, I haven't heard that that anywhere.

BSRsays...

It's like something you'd see in a movie

newtboysaid:

The news said he took mushrooms days before the incident, trying to tie them together….nonsense. Mushroom trips last hours, not days.

They said he stood up and tried to pull the fire handles, which would have automatically shut down the engines, wrestled with the pilots until he was removed from the cockpit forcefully, then tried to open the emergency exit door and had to be restrained.
I have yet to hear his explanation, but in my estimation he tried twice to bring the plane down. He’s charged with over 180 attempted murder charges!

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