"Joseph Emerson of Pleasant Hill faced change-of-plea hearings in both state and federal courts in Oregon Friday, stemming from his October 2023 case in which he endangered passengers and crew aboard an Alaska Airlines flight, when he was off-duty as a pilot but flying in the cockpit jumpseat. Emerson originally pleaded not guilty to charges that included 83 counts of reckless endangerment"
"As Emerson has described in interviews, he had been on a camping trip in Washington's Methow Valley with friends, who were together memorializing the death of Emerson's best friend, Scott Pinney, a fellow pilot who had died in 2018. The group had partaken of shrooms, or psilocybin mushrooms, something that Emerson had never done before, and he proceeded to have an adverse reaction that lasted for two days after he'd taken them."
Joseph Emerson, a former Alaska Airlines pilot, faced change-of-plea hearings in state and federal courts in Oregon for an October 2023 incident that endangered passengers and crew while he was in a cockpit jumpseat. He pleaded guilty to a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew and no contest to state charges after originally pleading not guilty to multiple counts. The incident prompted an emergency landing in Portland. Emerson had taken psilocybin mushrooms on a camping trip mourning a friend, experienced an adverse reaction and likely hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, had not slept for 40 hours, and entered a panicked, hallucinogenic state on the aircraft.
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