When Joseph Emerson, an off-duty pilot aboard Alaska Flight 2059, was taken into custody in Portland, Oregon after seemingly trying to switch off the plane's engines while it was 30,000 feet in the air, Carmen García Durazo was only a few miles away.
This was in October of 2023. Now, less than a year later, the team at "The New York Times Presents" has rolled out "Lie to Fly," a new documentary film — for which Durazo serves as director — on FX and Hulu that structures a broader investigation into pilot mental health around Emerson's story.
