Alaska Airlines Female Pilot Files Lawsuit, Saying Male Co-pilot Drugged and Raped Her

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 passanger jet lands as an Alaska Air Boeing 737 jet prepares to take off at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles on April 5, 2011. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

A female Alaska Airlines pilot has filed a lawsuit against the airlines over a work trip in 2017 during which she claims she was drugged and raped.

Betty Pina, based out of Seattle, said that during an overnight stay in Minneapolis for a work trip, she drank wine spiked by her male co-pilot.