Joseph David Emerson allegedly claimed he pulled two emergency handles because he thought he was “dreaming” and just wanted to wake up.

Questioning the moral of pilots tripping on psychedelics?

The moral panic slippery slope of: Pilots shouldn’t be using psychedelics therefor nobody should be using psychedelics.

And in any case, the article states that he wasn’t even a member of the flight crew but was sitting in the jump seat and had been operating on 40 hours without any sleep and didn’t say when he actually consumed the mushrooms.

The man was hallucinating and activating random emergency switches in the cockpit…

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