A former pilot accused of trying to close the aircraft plane engines aircraft of the flight of the guilty of the charges in a federal court.
Court documents showed that Joseph David Emerson was riding out of service in the cockpit for the Alaska lines trip when he told the pilots, “I am not fine” before trying to cut the engines prizes.
Emerson also told the police that he took a narcotic mushroom and was struggling with depression.
Under his agreement, prosecutors can pay a single year’s prison, while his lawyers are expected to argue in additional prison.
He has recognized that he is not abandoning a reckless danger and threatening aircraft in the Origon State Court, and a guilt at the Federal Court, according to the American BBC partner CBS News.
In the State Court, he was sentenced to 50 days in prison, which he actually served, five -year monitoring, 664 hours of community service – eight hours per person who endangers him – and $ 60,659 (44,907 pounds) in recovery, a BBC partner in the United States.
“What Joseph Emerson did is reckless, selfish, and criminal,” said Eric Picard, Multennah Province, Oregon, Deputy Prosecutor in the province. “We must remember how close it is to destroy the life of not only 84 people on the 2059 plane, but all members of their families and friends too.”
In the court on Friday, Emerson said that Hat was not able to realize the reality after taking the fungus, but “this does not make this true.”
“This difficult trip made me a better father, a better husband and a better member of my community,” he said. “Today, I became the father who I was unable to when I had to use alcohol to deal with life as life.”
The trip on October 22, 2023 was on its way from Evere, Washington, to San Francisco, California, with 80 passengers on board. Then it was transferred to Portland, Oregon.
The criminal complaint indicates that one of the pilots said that he had to wrestling with Emerson to stop the resistance and was removed from the cockpit. The entire accident lasted about 90 seconds.
After being subjected, Mr. Emerson told flight attendants: “You need to fill me now or will be bad.” Later I tried to reach the emergency exit handle while the plane descends, the documents say.
One of the flight attendants told the investigators that they noticed Emerson, saying, “I have spoiled everything” and that he “tried to kill everyone.”
Emerson can serve half -hours community service at Clear Skies in the foreground, which is non -profit for experimental health he founded with his wife after his arrest.
It should also be evaluated for the use of drugs and alcohol, refraining from using unspecified drugs, and maintaining at least 25 feet (7.6 meters) away from operating aircraft without permission from the surveillance officer, CBS said.
The ruling is scheduled to be issued in the federal case on November 17.