Aviation Week's Fleet Discovery database shows Alaska has an in-service fleet of 251 mainline aircraft, 232 of which are ...

Former Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson was sentenced to time served and three years of supervised release for trying to cut a flight’s engines in 2023. Emerson told police he hadn’t slept in 40 ...

A pilot riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots Sunday, according to Alaska Airlines and ...

Joseph Emerson, a former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a packed flight, was heard asking law enforcement if he would be forgiven for "being so stupid," in October 2023.

Newly released cockpit audio captures Alaska Airlines pilots urgently working to keep a plane in the air after off-duty pilot Joseph Emerson tried to shut down the engines mid-flight in 2023. Emerson, ...

A former Alaska Airlines pilot who admitted to trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 is set to learn his federal sentence Monday, nearly 14 months after the alarming incident forced ...

What could have been a major disaster in the air was averted Sunday. Alaska Airlines Flight 2059 had to make an emergency landing in Portland Sunday evening after an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot ...

Joseph Emerson, an Alaska Airlines pilot, was released without prison time after attempting to cut a flight's engines midair in 2023. Emerson reached a plea deal earlier this year and was sentenced to ...