A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit.
A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit.
Not sure anyone is trying to justify that.
Prosecution was only asking for a year. Because this is different than an aggressive passenger storming the cockpit to grab the controls, which is impossible these days. This guy is being punished for making the stupid decision to get on a flight without sleeping for 40 hours. Hallucinations from sleep deprivation are real.