From ADN.com….
An 18-year-old from Bethel grabbed the controls of a Cessna on a commercial flight Wednesday afternoon in Southwest Alaska and sent the plane into a dive before other passengers subdued him, Alaska State Troopers said.
Jaden Lake-Kameroff was on a Ryan Air flight from Bethel to Aniak with four other passengers when he got up from his seat around 2:44 p.m., troopers wrote in an online statement. He was seated in the second row during the flight, said Lee Ryan, president of Ryan Air.
“Lake-Kameroff had asked the pilot to fly the plane earlier during the flight and initially asked to sit in the unoccupied copilot seat. Both requests were denied by the pilot,” troopers spokesman Austin McDaniel wrote in an email.
About five minutes after Lake-Kameroff asked to fly the plane, the pilot, who was identified as Joshua Kersch in an affidavit, said he felt the yoke go forward and saw Lake-Kameroff pushing forward on the controls.
