{"id":19089,"date":"2016-05-12T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/passengers-quest-for-beer-forced-alaska-flight-to-divert\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:01:16","slug":"passengers-quest-for-beer-forced-alaska-flight-to-divert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/passengers-quest-for-beer-forced-alaska-flight-to-divert\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger&#8217;s quest for beer forced Alaska flight to divert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PORTLAND<\/strong> \u2014 A passenger who authorities say forced an Alaska Airlines flight to be diverted after he didn\u2019t get a beer has pleaded not guilty in Portland, Oregon, to a charge of interfering with a flight crew.<\/p>\n<p>A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday says 32-year-old Luke Watts of Portland threatened to become violent if flight attendants didn\u2019t serve him a beer during a March flight from Sacramento, California, to Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Tolkoff says Watts then locked himself in the bathroom and screamed and pounded on the door. He also demanded hugs from flight attendants.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned about the potential for violence, the pilot decided to land in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta on Tuesday allowed Watts to remain free while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND \u2014 A passenger who authorities say forced an Alaska Airlines flight to be diverted after he didn\u2019t get a beer has pleaded not guilty in Portland, Oregon, to a charge of interfering with a flight crew. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday says 32-year-old Luke Watts of Portland threatened to become violent if flight attendants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19089"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}