A FORMER Alaska Airlines pilot claimed he tried to shut down a plane’s engines mid-air because he was under the influence of ...

A 46-year-old former Alaska Airlines pilot, Joseph Emerson, faces decades in prison for trying to shut down his plane ...

Joseph Emerson was not a pilot on the Horizon Airlines jet but was sitting in a jump seat in the cockpit. He said he had ...

A former pilot who tried to turn off a plane's engines while riding off-duty on magic mushrooms has pleaded guilty to ...

Joseph David Emerson is set to enter pleas Friday in federal and state courts in Portland to charges that he tried to shut ...

Airbus is keen for a new era of flying to begin in which airlines will have only one pilot in the cockpit during the cruise phase of the flight. But this is tantamount to having no pilots, says ...

A Delta Airlines copilot was arrested by around 10 officers, some of whom appeared to be from the Department of Homeland Security, in the cockpit once a flight touched down in San Francisco on July 26 ...

Another pilot revealed what really happens in their cockpit when a storm prevents a plane from landing.

Hand flying means flying the plane manually, and it's ridiculously fun. We love the feeling of flying a plane, just like a race car driver loves being behind the wheel of a car.

Travel Travel News Plane crash Pilot reveals chilling reason cockpit goes silent if a plane is about to crash Liliana Gearap, a Boeing 737 First Officer at TAROM, has explained what pilots do when ...

Airlines and regulators are pushing to have just one pilot in the cockpit of passenger jets instead of two. It would lower costs and ease pressure from crew shortages, but placing such ...