Pilot who ‘tried to shut off engines mid-flight was high on magic mushrooms’

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Pilot who ‘tried to shut off engines mid-flight was high on magic mushrooms’
telegraph.co.uk
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From what I understand he had taken the mushrooms 40 hours prior, for his first time ever, and that’s why he’s been awake all that time. However he was also enroute to pilot a flight, which probably wouldn’t have worked out.

I call BS. Mushrooms don’t keep you up and… call me naive but… FLYING A FUCKING AIRPLANE shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. Why not take a sick day?

It can be tough to sleep mid-trip, but 10-12 hours or more later? You have other issues/substances if you can't sleep.

Sure, staying up 2 days and then trying to kill 85 people on an airplane is not a normal reaction.

He hadn’t slept in 40 hours, but he took the shrooms 48 hours prior, so he had slept since the shrooms at least for a bit.

Considering he was apparently on a psychotic break, not sure how reliable his self-reporting is.

Then maybe he never took shrooms or took them an hour beforehand, too