An off-duty pilot accused of trying to shut down engines mid-flight on an Alaska Airlines plane in October was indicted by a grand jury on 84 charges, prosecutors said.

An off-duty pilot accused of trying to shut down engines mid-flight on an Alaska Airlines plane in October was indicted on 84 charges – though the grand jury declined to go for attempted murder.

Joseph David Emerson, 44, was charged with one count of endangering aircraft in the first degree and 83 counts of recklessly endangering another person in connection with the Oct. 22 incident, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.

He is being held at the Multnomah County Detention Center in Portland, Oregon, and is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday.

  • ChainweaselEnglish
    67•5 months ago

    According to the off-duty pilot that tried to crash the plane, it was the shrooms he ate a week or so beforehand that made him want to do it.
    Now, I don’t know if You’ve ever tried psilocybin before, but that’s not how any of that works.

    • Nougat
      27•5 months ago

      They also said he had taken “a small amount of psilocybin,” which is found in mushrooms, two days prior to the flight.

      Not that that necessarily changes the “that’s not how any of that works” part, but it wasn’t “a week or so.”

      • @RizzRustbolt
        5•5 months ago

        Everyone thats been to DARE classes knows that mushrooms stay in your system forever.