Off-duty pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight
Joseph David Emerson was taken into custody, the Port of Portland confirmed.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-flight-diverted-after-credible-security-threat/story?id=104223059
I'm going through his social media before it goes poof and no radicalization markers so far. Just a happy looking guy with a wife, two kids, and a nice house in the Bay Area.
The only political commentary I saw in recent years was that he condemned what happened in DC on Jan 6, 2021.
@jjmacnab That was very naive if not stupid of him to take mushrooms for the first time and fly. It tells same me he did no research at all before hand.