• remer@lemmy.world
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      And this dude hadn’t slept in 40 hours. Who the hell take mushrooms for the first time with severe sleep deprivation while in the cockpit of a commercial airliner!? This guy was unstable to begin with. Hopefully this doesn’t set back the public and regulatory perception of psilocybin and all of the therapeutic benefits it has.

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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.

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          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?

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            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.

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

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        Supposedly, he took the mushies around 48hrs before, so they were out of his system. So it was probably just extreme sleep deprevation. Which begs the question, it that just considered normal on airlines?

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          It absolutely is NOT normal. They have very strict fatigue tracking and rules. This guy shouldn’t have been anywhere near a cockpit. I’m not sure if the rules extend to non-flight crew but I’m sure the FAA will be considering that now.

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      I suspect he’s blaming the mushrooms because he doesn’t want to admit whatever other drugs he’s been taking.

      If he hadn’t slept for 40 hours, it might be that he took meth.