Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoPilot who ‘tried to shut off engines mid-flight was high on magic mushrooms’www.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1314arrow-down156
arrow-up1258arrow-down1external-linkPilot who ‘tried to shut off engines mid-flight was high on magic mushrooms’www.telegraph.co.ukBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squaresquiblet@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down4·1 year agoFrom 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.
minus-squareBeetschnapps@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·1 year agoI 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?
minus-squareXIIIesq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 year agoIt can be tough to sleep mid-trip, but 10-12 hours or more later? You have other issues/substances if you can’t sleep.
minus-squaresquiblet@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoSure, staying up 2 days and then trying to kill 85 people on an airplane is not a normal reaction.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoHe 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.
minus-squaresquiblet@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoConsidering he was apparently on a psychotic break, not sure how reliable his self-reporting is.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThen maybe he never took shrooms or took them an hour beforehand, too
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