A federal complaint says an off-duty Alaskan Airlines pilot accused of trying to shut off a plane’s engines midflight may have been on psychedelic mushrooms. NBC News’ Ken Dilanian details the complaint and Joseph David Emerson’s past trouble with mental health.
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What a shame this guy is going to loose his whole career because of this incident.
Leave the 🍄 out of this!
Way to make this a hit piece against shrooms 🙄
But at what altitude did this happen?
You have a prestigious and well-paying career but decide to throw it all away just for some shrooms??
Sounds Whyte to me.
Wow wow
Yeah, I don’t think I’d wanna be trapped on an airplane when I’m tripping on shrooms. Really rookie move dude 😎😂👵🏼☮️
Asking Californian neighbors to judge whether a person is normal, may not achieve the intended result. To be precise, after living here in California for 10 years, what could truthfully be called normal here would not necessarily be deemed normal in other places.
A nitwit.. straight up dodo behavior
He lost his career for ever.
He’s trying to plead insanity.
At least he wasn’t Muslim!
That dummy pilot must have thought there were liberals on that plane. People are friggin dangerous these days.
People try psychedelics when they're trying to avoid a prescription for mental health med's!
Why would a pilot of all people, who has NEVER done shrooms before, take shrooms and then get on an airplane?!?!? tf?
Took mushrooms I couldn't imagine being in a plane wide open space beach
You should not go up in a plane after smoking weed! Shrooms? Are you CRAZY?
Osama bin Mushrooms.
Why was he in the cockpit?
If he thought he was depressed before, wait til hes sitting in jail with his new boyfriend.
Mushrooms aren’t responsible, it’s his heart. I tried them for the first time last week and took the recommended 1 gram amount and was still responsible/coherent. Maybe he was on alcohol.
Flying career over.
Depressed and self medicating
It seems to me that he was trying to commit suicide and using the shrooms for ’’Dutch courage’’.
He was taking in mushrooms on jumper seat, then got up and flips the two switch going, weeeeee!
Boeing should put them switches on front of the panel like Airbus!
Yeah they know about this "space pilot" but how many more are out there ?
This better become a movie