Alaska Air pilot in aborted flight said he used 'magic' mushrooms, documents show
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900ER airplane prepares to land at Vancouver's international airport in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Ben Nelms/File Photo - An off-duty pilot charged with trying to disable the engines of an Alaska Airlines jet in flight told police afterward he was suffering a nervous breakdown, had taken psychedelic mushrooms two days earlier and had not slept in 40 hours, court documents showed on Tuesday.
Emerson was charged in a separate federal criminal complaint with one count of interfering with flight crew members and attendants. Alaska Airlines Flight 2059 was operated by the group's regional subsidiary Horizon Air, the company said. A ballot measure approved by voters in 2020 made Oregon the first U.S. state to decriminalize psilocybin and to legalize its supervised therapeutic use for adults at least 21 years old. But psilocybin remains strictly prohibited under federal law.The two pilots who were at the controls of Flight 2059 told investigators, according to affidavits, that Emerson had started out chatting with them casually, before suddenly hurling his radio headset across the cockpit and saying,"I'm not OK.
The flight crew later told investigators that had Emerson managed to fully deploy the shut-off handles, the plane was"seconds away" from being turned into a glider. Even as he was under restraint, the court documents said, Emerson tried to grab an emergency exit handle, but a flight attendant stopped him by placing her hands over his and making conversation to distract him.
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