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-square75fedilinkarrow-up1276arrow-down152
arrow-up1224arrow-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-square75fedilink
minus-squaresquiblet@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up34arrow-down3·1 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-up25·1 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-up21·1 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.
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.