Newly-released cockpit audio captured the moment an Alaska Airlines pilot tried to shut off the engines of a flight on the way to San Francisco more than two years ago.

The routine flight in October 2023 suddenly turned manic. The audio from inside the cockpit captured several expletives being blurted out amid the confusion.

Someone is then heard saying that they need to make an emergency landing.

Horizon Flight 2059 was headed from Everett, Washington to the Bay Area when off-duty pilot Joseph Emerson in handcuffs, who was riding in the jumpset, reached for the fire suppression handles - a move that could have cut fuel to both engines of the aircraft.

The flight crew stopped him and diverted straight to Portland.

Once he was in handcuffs on the tarmac, video from inside the police

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