An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who authorities said tried to shut off a passenger jet’s engines during an October flight was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Portland, Oregon, on seven dozen lesser state charges than the initial attempted murder counts prosecutors originally sought. Joseph David Emerson, 44, who told authorities he was on…
(Reuters) –Microsoft said late on Wednesday it had resolved an outage of its Azure cloud platform that had impacted the tech giant’s suite of productivity software, and a range of industries worldwide. “While error rates and latency are back to pre-incident levels, a small number of customers may still be seeing issues, and we are…
All Alaska Airlines flights were suspended Thursday evening due to a tech outage. The airline said in a statement provided to CBS News that it was “experiencing an IT outage affecting operations” and had “issued a temporary ground stop.” It did not elaborate on the nature of the outage or how long it might last….
A passenger was arrested after allegedly assaulting two Alaska Airlines flight attendants, forcing the flight they were on to divert, according to the airline. Alaska Airlines Flight 1057 was traveling from Portland to Dallas early Tuesday morning, the company said in a statement. After a “security incident” in which a passenger physically assaulted two attendants,…
Cathay Pacific Airlines will operate its Seattle-Hong Kong flights on Airbus A350-900 aircraft like this one. Courtesy of Cathay Pacific Cathay Pacific Airlines is resuming nonstop service from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Hong Kong in 2026, marking a return of service that it began in 2019 before service was canceled during the global pandemic. The…
A former Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday as part of an agreement with prosecutors. He’s expected to plead no-contest to state charges, which carries the same legal effect as a guilty…
STORY: :: Nikki Chapman United Airlines flights at U.S. airports were briefly grounded on Wednesday. :: Alan Billman The company says it has now fixed the tech issue that caused it. In a statement, United said: “We’ve resolved technology issues that had been affecting flights. While we’re still experiencing delays, our team is working to…
Alaska Airlines is asking for a system-wide ground stop due to an “IT outage.” The Federal Aviation Administration posted an advisory of the request. In a statement to CBS News, the carrier said that, “At approximately 8 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, Alaska Airlines experienced an IT outage that’s impacting our operations. We requested a temporary,…
The past several years have not been kind to U.S. aerospace company Boeing. Its 737 Max airliner was grounded between March 2019 and December 2020 after two of the jets crashed in less than five months, killing 346 people. Then in January 2024, a panel covering an unused emergency exit blew out at 16,000 feet and opened a…
NTSB says Boeing, FAA share blame for door plug flying off Alaska Airlines flight – CBS News Watch CBS News The National Transportation Safety Board says Boeing and the FAA both share blame for a harrowing incident last year when a door plug blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet. Kris Van…