{"id":2078482,"date":"2023-10-24T22:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:04:02","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-2\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:06:56","slug":"off-duty-alaska-pilot-who-tried-to-shut-off-plane-engines-mid-flight-says-he-took-psychedelic-mushrooms-2","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-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska pilot on break attempts to turn off plane engines mid-flight after consuming psychedelic 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\">30<\/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-2%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=2078482&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 \u200cLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)\u200b on January 11, 2023. (Photo by Daniel SLIM \/ AFP) \u200d(Photo by DANIEL 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\u200b Tuesday, October 24, 2023<\/h3>\n<p>An off-duty \u2063pilot who is facing\u2064 83 attempted murder charges \u2062after trying to stop the \u2064engines\u2064 of a plane mid-air claimed that he had 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 released Tuesday, an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot stated he <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-2\/\" title=\"Alaska pilot on break attempts to turn off plane engines mid-flight after consuming psychedelic mushrooms.\">ingested \u201cmagic mushrooms\u201d approximately 48 hours<\/a> before officials allege he\u200c tried to shut down a plane\u2019s 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 \u2064IN: Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson is now charged in FEDERAL court with interfering with a flight crew. Docs \u200dsay as\u2064 he lunged for the \u200dengine\u2064 fire handles, he said &#8220;I&#8217;m not okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told police he\u2064 hadn&#8217;t slept in 40 \u2063hours, was\u2064 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 the aftermath of Sunday\u2019s midair flight onboard a San Francisco-bound flight, Joseph Emerson told \u200dinvestigators that \u2062he thought he was dreaming and wanted to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>Emerson, 44, pleaded \u2062not guilty in state court on Tuesday afternoon to 83 counts of attempted murder and one count of endangering an aircraft. In addition to the felonies, he \u200cpleaded not\u200b guilty \u200bto 83 misdemeanor\u200b counts of reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors \u2064stated that Emerson tried to seize the handle of an emergency exit while \u2063flight attendants were holding him. <\/p>\n<p>The United States Attorney\u2019s Office in \u200bOregon revealed \u200bin a statement\u200b that he was charged in\u200c federal court with one \u2064count of interfering with flight crew members and attendants.<\/p>\n<p>According to a flight attendant, Emerson said he \u201ctried to\u200c kill everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI affidavit stated that the off-duty \u200bpilot claimed he thought he was having a \u201cnervous breakdown\u201d and that he hadn\u2019t\u2063 slept in 40 hours.\u2062 Emerson also reportedly told an officer\u200c that he had been depressed for six years and that a \u200bfriend had\u200d recently died.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand why you\u2019re showing me so much kindness, I\u2019m obviously f\u2014-d up,\u201d Emerson told the officer. \u201cI messed everything up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, an officer stated that Emerson didn\u2019t appear to be \u201coutwardly under the influence of\u2062 intoxicants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Emerson was seated in the jump seat \u200cof Alaska Airlines Flight 2059 from Everett, Washington, when \u2064he reportedly attempted to trigger\u200d the plane\u2019s emergency fire suppression system, which would have cut off fuel to the engines, according to\u2064 prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Before to the incident, he and the flight\u2019s pilots were casually conversing in the cockpit, as one of the pilots told\u200b investigators. <\/p>\n<p>Records state that Emerson then hurled his headset across the cockpit and screamed, \u201cI am not okay.\u201d \u2063He then grasped and pulled on \u200bthe two red knobs, which would have activated the suppression\u2062 system. <\/p>\n<p>The second pilot said that Emerson\u200c was \u200cunable to pull all\u2063 the\u200c way down \u2064on the handles because the pilots\u2062 were \u2063wrestling with him.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u200crecords, Emerson and the pilots struggled in the cockpit for around 25 seconds\u200d until Emerson\u2062 settled down and was asked to leave the cockpit after around 90 seconds, with \u200cthe pilots closing the door \u200bbehind him.<\/p>\n<p>The crew called the flight attendants and informed them that \u2063Emerson was \u201closing it,\u201d according to the records. <\/p>\n<p>Emerson was then taken \u200dto the back \u2064of the plane by a flight attendant and strolled there calmly,\u200b informing\u200c one flight attendant that he \u201cjust got kicked out of the flight deck.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cYou need \u200dto cuff me right now or it\u2019s going to be bad,\u201d Emerson told\u200c the flight attendant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Flight personnel restrained Emerson\u2019s wrists and sat him in \u200dthe back of the plane. According to\u2062 authorities, Emerson attempted to seize \u200bthe handle of an emergency exit as the jet was descending to Portland\u2019s airport. To stop him, a flight attendant placed her hands on his.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Airlines released a statement on Tuesday saying\u00a0they are \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by \u200bthe revelations and that Emerson did not appear to be impaired\u2062 prior to\u2064 flight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cAt no \u2063time during the check-in or boarding process did our Gate Agents or\u2063 flight crew observe any signs of impairment that would have led\u200c them to prevent Emerson from flying,\u201d the airline said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emerson \u2063now faces \u2063more than <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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The pilot, Joseph Emerson, claimed that he had previously taken psychedelics, according to court records released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on a \u2062San Francisco-bound flight, where Emerson reportedly attempted to shut down the plane&#8217;s \u200cengines mid-flight. An affidavit filed by an Oregon\u2064 prosecutor<\/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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