https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-alaska-airlines-pilot-shut-engines-flight-shares/story?id=113066835
Joe Emerson, the pilot who attempted to shut down the engines of an in-flight Alaska Airlines plane, shares his story with ABC News.
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Joe Emerson had been struggling over the death of his best friend, Scott, a pilot who died while on a run six years earlier. Emerson had been away for the weekend with friends, celebrating and remembering Scott.
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On Friday night, the group took psychedelic mushrooms – a drug that can make you hallucinate and typically has effects that last a few hours. Emerson said that for him, the physical side effects lasted days, and the consequences a lifetime.
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"There are two red handles in front of my face," Emerson recalled. "And thinking that I was going to wake up, thinking this is my way to get out of this non-real reality, I reached up and I grabbed them, and I pulled the levers."
Bullshit. Buuuuuulllllshhhhhiiiiittttt
I love shrooms. They don’t last for days. That motherfucker just fucked up on the job. Probably due to lack of sleep from all that partying. That whole “inception” nonsense is a liiieeeee
Yeah, he kept the party going for sure. Good lord, I absolutely hate being on an airplane sober, but I have never thought "damn, if I was only hallucinating on psilocybin, this would be more pleasant."
IIRC they also said he'd stayed up for something like 48 hours straight before the flight. Mushrooms aren't the type of drug where you can just take more to keep things going. Your body needs like a week to recover before they really work again.
So many people don't know ot understand this. Ive seen so much money wasted on shrooms from people trying to "extend" their trip. Whatever you initially take is what you'll get out of the trip. Everything after is wasted and pissed out. Idk the biology of it I just know from tons of experience taking them.
Intrusive thought, everyone has those, humans are squishy this isn't surprisingly. But blaming it on machine elves, bro, that's not cool...
Or, just maybe don't do drugs if you know you have to fly a plane soon and are possibly struggling with depression.
He wasn't flying the plane.
He was getting a free flight from his airline because he was a pilot.
Think it was a cargo plane so he was one of the only passengers. He freaked out, entered the cabin, and started trying to crash the plane. The actual pilots had to hit him with a wrench or something I think to stop him.
And he took them like 12 hours before the flight, this was at the "this is a dream I have to wake up" stage.
At least. That's what I remember from one this happened, it's been a minute
That must be something else because he was charged with 83 counts of attempted murder. 1 for each passenger.
He was in a passenger jet. He had a seat in the cockpit with the actual pilot and copilot.
He was getting a free flight from his airline because he was a pilot.
Think it was a cargo plane so he was one of the only passengers. He freaked out, entered the cabin, and started trying to crash the plane. The actual pilots had to hit him with a wrench or something I think to stop him.
This sounds like the FedEx hijacking attempt, flight 705.
Yeah apparently this is more common than I thought and I'm co flating the two.
Thanks!