Audio Footage Reveals The Moment An Alaska Airline Pilot High On Mushrooms Threatens To Shut Of Engines Mid-Flight
42 days ago
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Audio footage released reveals the moment an Alaska Airlines pilot tried shutting off the engines of a plane with 84 people on board mid-flight.
Joseph Emerson was tripping on mushrooms when he tried to crash the plane.
At the time of the incident, Emerson was off duty but was sitting in the extra seat of the cockpit.
After getting Emerson out of the cockpit, the pilots landed the plane.
Emerson told police he had eaten psychedelic mushrooms a couple of days before and thought he was dreaming.
He says he tried cutting the fuel supply by grabbing the red handles in the cockpit to wake himself up.
Emerson was charged with 83 counts of endangering another person and one count of endangering an aircraft.
He received a 50-day jail sentence with credit for time served and five years of probation, according to Fox News.
