Wall Street Journal

For Cases of Beer, the Plane Was Seized

For want of a shoe the horse was lost, but can cases of beer cause you to lose your plane? That’s what happened to Ken Jouppi, an Alaskan pilot who made his living flying passengers to remote villages ...
The New York Times

Alaska Seized a $95,000 Plane Over Illicit Cargo: A Six-Pack of Beer

The plane’s owner, an 82-year-old veteran, has asked the Supreme Court to hear his case and set limits on forfeitures of property used to commit crimes. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington Ken ...
Hawaii News Now

Alaska Air Group announces first female CEO of Hawaiian Airlines

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Alaska Air Group announced on Wednesday, Diana Birkett Rakow will become the first female CEO of Hawaiian Airlines effective Oct. 29. Birkett Rakow succeeds Joe Sprague, who ...
Washington Examiner

Chief Justice John Roberts, make Alaska give back Ken Jouppi’s plane

More than a decade ago, Alaska bush pilot Ken Jouppi was on a routine run from Fairbanks to the tiny village of Beaver, carrying a passenger and her groceries. What he didn’t know was that tucked ...
People

Alaska Airlines Pilot Tried to Shut Off Plane Mid-Flight, Then Gave a Shocking Reason — and He Just Pleaded Guilty

Joseph D. Emerson, 46, pleaded guilty on Friday, Sept. 5, to one felony count of interference with flight crew members and attendants ABC News A now-former Alaska Airlines pilot who was accused of ...
KOIN 6

Ex-Alaska pilot accused of stopping plane mid-flight will spend 50 days in jail

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Joseph Emerson, the off-duty pilot who tried to stop a plane mid-flight, was convicted Friday on 83 counts of reckless endangering another person in a Multnomah County Circuit ...
Reason

Alaska has been trying to seize Ken Jouppi's Cessna for 13 years over a misdemeanor crime.

An Alaska man is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether the government's seizure of his $95,000 plane for transporting an illicit six-pack of beer is an excessive fine under the Eighth ...
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Alaska Pilot's $95,000 Cessna on the Line for Passenger's Beer

For more than a decade, longtime Alaska bush pilot Ken Jouppi has been locked in a legal battle with the state of Alaska over his 1969 Cessna U206D. At issue: whether the state can permanently take ...
Flying

Alaska Pilot’s $95,000 Cessna on the Line for Passenger’s Beer

Alaska bush pilot Ken Jouppi is embroiled in a decade-long legal battle over the state's permanent forfeiture of his $95,000 aircraft after his passenger was found transporting beer into a "dry ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

Here's why Soviet pilots are buried at a US base in Alaska

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...
katu

Court docs: Former Alaska Air pilot who forced emergency landing to change plea

Joseph Emerson, who is accused of trying to cut the engines of a Horizon passenger flight back in 2023, is scheduled to finally be arraigned and also change his plea September 5 in federal court in ...