Pilot Who Tried to Crash Plane Says He
Was on 'Shrooms, but Magic Mushroom Fans
Have Doubts
PJ Media,
by
Victoria Taft
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
10/26/2023 2:03:55 PM
The pilot who allegedly tried to crash an Alaska Airlines commuter plane while over Portland told the pilots who overpowered him that he “was not OK.” He later admitted to FBI agents that he took “magic mushrooms” for the first time about two days before he tried to crash the plane with 83 souls on board. This is the same drug that psychedelic aficionados have been falling all over themselves to decriminalize all over the country. But fans of using psilocybin, the active ingredient in these “magic mushrooms,” say there’s no way the pilot would have turned violent and tried to murder passengers
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 10/26/2023 2:11:22 PM (No. 1586404)
I don't care at all what he may or may not have been "on". He did it, 100% certain and should spend some time in prison for that and NEVER again get into the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 10/26/2023 2:20:04 PM (No. 1586414)
When you crosswire a brain with some damned psych chemicals, nobody has any idea how a particular person on a particular day will react. One thing is certain, they will NOT act normally.
I really cannot understand the people who hate themselves so much that they have to take drugs of many types to attempt to escape from themselves. This just doesn't compute for me. It's why I don't drink alcohol. It changes me, makes me stupider, and potentially do dumb and dangerous things. I tried it a few times as a teen finally decided to never do this. I like being the way I am normally, don't want to be different, especially dumber, clumsier and less rational.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hazymac 10/26/2023 2:37:52 PM (No. 1586421)
The pilot is attempting to mitigate the severity of his coming punishment, which will take him out of the world as he knows it. What's it going to be? Hobson has a choice. The hatch or the hoosegow? 84 counts of attempted murder ought to do him well. I cannot hope to imagine what this pilot was thinking. And why would Gov. Brylcreem want to legalize all hallucinogens in California unless he were a user himself? His policies provide unmistakable evidence of chemical stimulation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/26/2023 2:44:00 PM (No. 1586426)
Emerson, I don't know what mis-fired in your head. You had your whole working career and life still ahead of you. But I guess your noggin did not agree with that. Going forward, enjoy prison life. And you don't have to prove yourself anymore sorry to say.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
2assume 10/26/2023 3:15:57 PM (No. 1586448)
What would possess two seemingly normal guys within days of each other go off the deep end?
Is this the beginning of the new normal?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 10/26/2023 3:47:15 PM (No. 1586460)
How many of these violent psychotics started out changing their brains with "harmless" marijuana?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/26/2023 3:51:24 PM (No. 1586463)
What if he was trying to "save" the passengers? If his hallucinations led him to believe the engines were on fire, it would make more sense.
Doesn't excuse it, though.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 10/26/2023 4:00:30 PM (No. 1586469)
The article states he was awake for 48 hours. He consumed the mushrooms at the beginning of those 48 hours. The effects of the hallucinogen would have worn off long before he boarded the plane. He's deflecting his behavior onto the substance; he's got a lot more problems than the 'shrooms.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hazymac 10/26/2023 4:47:57 PM (No. 1586485)
#8 is correct. No flashbacks from 'shrooms. The trip lasts a few hours, then it's over. You're no longer tripping. You've come down. No psilocybin excuse. This sick fellow just decided to kill everyone onboard that aeroplane, and was prevented, thank the Lord. It wasn't drugs. It was evil.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Catherine 10/26/2023 6:16:33 PM (No. 1586511)
What's more shocking to me are the sympathy comments for this man on DM. Post after post saying 'poor man' and 'he was not in his right mind,' etc. Yes he was. He deserves no sympathy or compassion. Lock him up for the rest of his life.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/26/2023 8:09:46 PM (No. 1586533)
My oldest son is a Captain for a major airline. His emergency training assumes that anyone including the flight crew may "not be right". But to have a fellow captain or first officer sitting right behind you in the jump seat who suddenly wants to crash the aircraft is difficult to rehearse. Was this incident a one-off occurrence? I hope so, despite the worsening mental health crisis in Amerika.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 10/26/2023 8:24:02 PM (No. 1586540)
Sounds like the guy that tried the twinkie defense several years ago only this time ii is magic mushrooms. Didn't work for the twinkie guy and and won't work magic mushroom guy. Book em Danno.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 10/27/2023 12:22:50 AM (No. 1586600)
In simpler, and pretty clearly saner times, half a century ago, I traveled across the Atlantic in Air Force jets a number of times as a college student, on military "space available" orders. I was welcomed into the cockpit of C-141s several times and being very interested in aviation and flight, had many hours of fun and education asking questions to the pilots as they sat there with their feet up on the glare shield, pushed back with the autopilot on. I was invited to sit in the jump seat, just behind the center console, between and slightly behind the pilots. Great memories, and sincere thanks to the pilots being friendly to a young college kid. Of course they were only about 6-10 year older than I was.
The idea of hijacking or anything else harmful in aircraft hadn't made it's way into the world in those early '70s times. In fact there wasn't even a door between the cockpit and the rest of the aircraft, zero security checks. So sad to see all the true crazieness in the world. In those days, we were all a lot more trusting, Not so many crazies running loose,
it would seem.
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