Jumpseat pilot goes berzerk!

[MooneyMitch]

HAL: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now.

[jaylw314]

17 hours ago, 1980Mooney said:

The off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut off the engines during a flight on Sunday told investigators that he had been sleepless and dehydrated since he consumed psychedelic mushrooms about 48 hours before boarding and that he had been depressed for a long time, state and federal court documents said.

The pilot, 44, also told the police in an interview after he was taken into custody that he believed he was having a “nervous breakdown,”. He said he had struggled with depression for about six years and that a friend had recently died.  The pilot “talked about the use of psychedelic mushrooms, and said it was his first time taking mushrooms,” the federal documents said. The documents did not elaborate on the quantity of psilocybin from mushrooms that he said he had consumed, and it was not known if the authorities had given him a drug test.

“I didn’t feel OK,” he told the police, according to the federal complaint. “It seemed like the pilots weren’t paying attention to what was going on.”

He also told the police, according to the complaint, “I pulled both emergency shut off handles because I thought I was dreaming and I just wanna wake up.”

Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic chemical in certain mushrooms known as magic mushrooms. Eating mushrooms that contain psilocybin can have a variety of effects, ranging from euphoria to hallucinations.

Street Name:  Magic mushrooms, Mushrooms, Shrooms

https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/psilocybin

Was that report verified?  I thought I read in the initial statements there was no pilot statement or information released as to the time he may have ingested any mushrooms?

8 hours ago, Fly Boomer said:

Laying the groundwork for an insanity defense.

AFAIK intentionally taking an illegal substance is not a great defense to criminal charges

[1980Mooney]

53 minutes ago, jaylw314 said:

Was that report verified?  I thought I read in the initial statements there was no pilot statement or information released as to the time he may have ingested any mushrooms?

AFAIK intentionally taking an illegal substance is not a great defense to criminal charges

Every recent news report states that he made a statement to the police admitting that he was depressed and that he took psychedelic mushrooms 48 hours before the incident.
 

[Justin Schmidt]

20 hours ago, Echo said:

You want to take yourself out, that's one thing.  Trying to "take out" four score innocent humans because you are depressed should result in not being out in society for a LONG time.  No take backs buddy.

four score and 7 people

[whiskytango]

19 hours ago, MooneyMitch said:

HAL: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now.

But there's this: "The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."  HAL never promised that he would always be rational.