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  • An off-duty pilot tried

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 23 18:58:26 2023
    An off-duty pilot tried to disrupt an Alaska Airlines flight's engines
    before being subdued, airline says

    An off-duty pilot riding as a passenger in the cockpit of an Alaska
    Airlines flight Sunday tried to "disrupt the operation of the
    engines," forcing the flight en route to San Francisco to divert to
    Portland, Oregon, the airline said in a statement Monday.

    The suspect, identified by police as Joseph D. Emerson, 44, was
    subdued by the flight crew and taken into custody by the Port of
    Portland police officers, the port said in a separate statement.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/alaska-airlines-passenger/index.html

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Oct 25 00:03:12 2023
    On 10/23/2023 7:58 PM, JAB wrote:
    An off-duty pilot tried to disrupt an Alaska Airlines flight's engines
    before being subdued, airline says

    An off-duty pilot riding as a passenger in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines flight Sunday tried to "disrupt the operation of the
    engines," forcing the flight en route to San Francisco to divert to
    Portland, Oregon, the airline said in a statement Monday.

    The suspect, identified by police as Joseph D. Emerson, 44, was
    subdued by the flight crew and taken into custody by the Port of
    Portland police officers, the port said in a separate statement.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/alaska-airlines-passenger/index.html

    I wonder why he did it? How odd.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to michael.trew@att.net on Wed Oct 25 05:25:40 2023
    On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:03:12 -0400, Michael Trew
    <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

    I wonder why he did it?

    Something about consuming psychedelic mushrooms and being up for 40
    hours without sleep. More specific details, like events timeline, was
    not laid out on news bytes I saw.
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    I believe he suggested hallucinations were behind his behavior, but hallucinations can be drug induced, and by sleep deprivation.

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