An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who was sitting in the cockpit during a flight to San Francisco allegedly tried to turn the plane’s engines off in mid-air. Joseph Emerson, 44, was restrained and handcuffed in the back of the plane, which had to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. Kris Van Cleave reports.
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