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'I made a big mistake': Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut off engines shares story
Joseph Emerson, a former Alaska Airlines pilot, calls it the biggest mistake of his life. Emerson was inside an Alaska Airlines cockpit last October when he raised his arms and pulled two large red levers that could have shut down both engines, at 30,000 …