{"id":2078416,"date":"2023-10-24T21:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T01:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-duty-alaska-pilot-who-tried-to-shut-off-plane-engines-mid-flight-says-he-took-psychedelic-mushrooms\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T01:04:40","slug":"off-duty-alaska-pilot-who-tried-to-shut-off-plane-engines-mid-flight-says-he-took-psychedelic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-duty-alaska-pilot-who-tried-to-shut-off-plane-engines-mid-flight-says-he-took-psychedelic-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska pilot on break attempted to halt plane engines mid-flight after consuming magic mushrooms."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foff-duty-alaska-pilot-who-tried-to-shut-off-plane-engines-mid-flight-says-he-took-psychedelic-mushrooms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2078416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">US-TRAVEL-AIR-PLANE An Alaska airlines plane seen at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on January 11, 2023. (Photo by Daniel SLIM \/ AFP)\u200c (Photo by \u200cDANIEL\u2063 SLIM\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/abril-elfi\" target=\"_blank\">Abril Elfi<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>6:00 PM \u2013 Tuesday,\u2063 October 24, \u200b2023<\/h3>\n<p>An off-duty pilot who is facing 83 attempted\u200d murder charges after trying to stop the engines of a\u2062 plane mid-air\u200b claimed that he \u200bhad previously taken psychedelics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to court records \u2062released Tuesday, an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot stated he ingested &#8220;magic mushrooms&#8221; approximately 48 hours before officials allege he tried to shut down a plane&#8217;s engines mid-flight. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN:\u2063 Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson is now charged in FEDERAL court with \u2064interfering with a flight crew. Docs say as he lunged for the engine fire handles, \u2064he said &#8220;I&#8217;m not okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told \u200bpolice he hadn&#8217;t slept in 40 \u2064hours, was depressed, and admitted to &#8220;what I did.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tP9c4Igjg3\">pic.twitter.com\/tP9c4Igjg3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petemuntean\/status\/1716889354780704868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>An affidavit filed by an Oregon prosecutor, in \u200cthe aftermath of \u2063Sunday&#8217;s midair flight onboard a San\u2062 Francisco-bound flight,\u2063 Joseph Emerson told investigators that he thought he was \u2062dreaming\u200b and \u2063wanted to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>Emerson, 44, pleaded not guilty in state\u2064 court on Tuesday afternoon to 83 counts of attempted murder and one count of endangering an\u200b aircraft. In addition to the felonies, he pleaded \u2064not guilty to\u2062 83\u200d misdemeanor \u2064counts of reckless \u200dendangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors stated that Emerson tried to seize the\u200c handle of an emergency exit while flight attendants were holding him. <\/p>\n<p>The United\u2062 States\u2062 Attorney&#8217;s Office in \u2062Oregon revealed in a\u200d statement that he was charged in federal \u200ccourt with \u2064one count of interfering \u2063with flight\u2062 crew members and\u200c attendants.<\/p>\n<p>According to a flight attendant, Emerson said he\u200d &#8220;tried to kill everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u200d affidavit stated that the off-duty\u2062 pilot claimed he thought he was having a\u200d &#8220;nervous breakdown&#8221; and that he hadn&#8217;t\u200c slept in\u2062 40 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Emerson also\u200b reportedly\u2064 told an officer that he had been\u200c depressed for six years and that a friend had recently died.<\/p>\n<p>He told another officer that he \u200dhad\u200c taken\u200c &#8220;magic\u2063 mushrooms&#8221; roughly 48 hours\u2063 before the incident on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why you&#8217;re showing\u200b me so much kindness,\u2063 I&#8217;m obviously f&#8212;d up,&#8221; \u200dEmerson told the officer. &#8220;I messed everything up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, an officer\u200d stated that\u2062 Emerson didn&#8217;t\u200d appear to be &#8220;outwardly under the influence\u200d of intoxicants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Emerson was seated in\u200c the jump seat of Alaska\u2063 Airlines Flight 2059 from Everett, \u2062Washington, when he reportedly attempted\u2062 to trigger the plane&#8217;s emergency fire suppression\u200d system, which \u200dwould have\u2063 cut off fuel to the engines, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Before to the incident, he and \u2062the\u2063 flight&#8217;s pilots were casually conversing in\u200b the\u2064 cockpit,\u2063 as one of the pilots told investigators. <\/p>\n<p>Records state that Emerson then hurled his headset across the cockpit and screamed, &#8220;I am \u200cnot okay.&#8221;\u200b He then grasped and pulled on the two red knobs, which\u200d would have activated the suppression system. <\/p>\n<p>The\u200c second pilot said that Emerson was \u2063unable to pull all \u200dthe \u2064way down on the handles because the pilots were wrestling with him.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u2064 records, Emerson and the pilots struggled in the cockpit for \u200daround 25\u2062 seconds until Emerson settled down and was asked\u200c to leave the cockpit \u2064after around 90 seconds, with the pilots closing the door behind him.<\/p>\n<p>The crew called the flight attendants and informed them that Emerson was &#8220;losing it,&#8221; according to the records. <\/p>\n<p>Emerson \u2062was taken to the back of the \u200bplane by a flight\u2064 attendant and strolled there calmly, informing one flight attendant that he &#8220;just got kicked out of the flight deck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;You need to\u200b cuff me right now\u200c or \u200dit&#8217;s \u200bgoing to be bad,&#8221; Emerson told the flight attendant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Flight personnel\u2062 restrained Emerson&#8217;s wrists and sat him in the back of the plane. According to authorities, Emerson attempted \u2064to seize the handle of an emergency exit as the jet was descending to Portland&#8217;s\u2063 airport. To stop him, a \u200cflight attendant placed her \u2062hands on his.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Airlines released\u200c a statement on\u2063 Tuesday \u2063saying\u00a0they are &#8220;deeply disturbed&#8221; by the revelations and that Emerson did not appear to be\u2063 impaired prior to\u2062 flight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;At no time during the check-in or boarding process \u2063did our Gate Agents or\u200c flight crew observe any signs \u2062of impairment that would have led them to prevent Emerson from flying,&#8221; the airline said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emerson now faces more than\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-duty-alaska-pilot-who-tried-to-shut-off-plane-engines-mid-flight-says-he-took-psychedelic-mushrooms\/\" title=\"Alaska pilot on break attempted to halt plane engines mid-flight after consuming magic mushrooms.\">160 state charges including attempted murder<\/a> and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! 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He then attempted to access the cockpit and shut down the engines. Passengers and \u2064crew members were able to restrain Emerson and prevent any further harm.<\/p>\n<p>According to the affidavit, Emerson admitted to ingesting &#8220;magic mushrooms&#8221; two days before the incident. He \u200bclaimed that the\u200d hallucinogenic effects of the drugs caused him to believe he\u2063 was \u200cin a dream \u2063and \u2064that his actions were part \u2062of some\u200d sort\u200d of awakening.<\/p>\n<p>This shocking incident raises questions about the mental health \u200dand well-being of airline pilots. It also highlights the\u2064 potential\u2064 dangers\u200b of substance \u2064abuse and the need\u2063 for stricter regulations\u200d and monitoring within \u2063the aviation industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation\u2062 Administration\u200c (FAA) \u200dhas strict\u200d guidelines in place for pilots regarding substance abuse. \u200cPilots are prohibited from using\u2064 any substance that could affect their cognitive or physical\u200d abilities while on duty. They are also subject to random drug and alcohol \u2062testing.<\/p>\n<p>While \u2062it is unclear \u200dhow Emerson \u200cwas\u2062 able to pass\u2064 these screenings, it is evident that \u2063more needs to be done to ensure\u200b the safety of passengers. Airlines\u2062 and \u2062regulatory \u200bbodies\u200d must work together to implement stronger protocols for monitoring\u200b pilots&#8217; mental and physical \u200bstates.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to stricter guidelines, airlines should \u2062also prioritize mental health support\u2062 for their employees. By providing resources and counseling services, pilots \u2063who may be struggling with mental\u200d health issues can seek help before \u2064their \u2064conditions escalate to \u2064dangerous levels.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064incident \u200dinvolving Joseph Emerson serves\u200b as a wake-up call to \u200cthe aviation industry. It is a reminder that the \u2062safety of passengers and crew\u2064 members must \u2062always be\u200c the top priority. As technology advances and travel becomes more \u2063accessible, it is crucial that we continuously evaluate \u2062and improve the systems in place to prevent such\u2062 incidents from occurring in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the case \u2062of\u200c an\u2063 off-duty pilot attempting to disrupt a flight mid-air\u200d due to \u200bthe consumption of \u2063hallucinogenic drugs is an alarming incident. It\u2063 highlights\u200d the importance\u2063 of mental health support\u200d and stricter regulations within the aviation industry. The safety of passengers should\u2063 always\u200b remain the paramount concern, and actions \u2063must be taken to prevent similar situations from happening again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alaska Airlines plane at LAX on January 11, 2023. Off-duty pilot charged with 83 attempted murders for tampering with engines. 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