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Honestly I kind of feel bad for the guy. He didn’t put up much of a fight and he sounded very shocked and sad at what he did. Now his career is over and as he’s

Honestly I kind of feel bad for the guy. He didn’t put up much of a fight and he sounded very shocked and sad at what he did. Now his career is over and as he’s a plane hijacker as far as the law is concerned. If he really wanted to crash the plane I imagine he would have succeeded.

lamontcg 3y ago
It kinda makes more sense to me that he was taking something like Ambien and had an episode.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  Apparently he was experimenting with mushrooms and had a psychosis. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/alaska-airlines-off-duty-pilot-arraignment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/alaska-airlines-off-du...
  - kayfox 3y ago
    The mushroom thing was between 6 months ago and now, its not clear from the affidavit when it was.
    - jacquesm 3y ago
      In the article it says 48 hours after consumption but it isn't quite a hard statement on when he took it.
jacquesm 3y ago
I've seen two spur-of-the-moment suicides from up close and it's devastating to everybody involved but these did not put anybody else at risk. But from watching the aftermath it's clear to me that the people involved never really thought about the effect on others much, they just acted. This is indeed super sad. And I get your rationalization but the list of such instances that did succeed is rather longer than I'm comfortable with and the only difference seems to be that those people succeeded where this guy did not. It may have been a very short moment. Scary stuff. You realize when driving that not only am I responsible for the lives of those in my vehicle and the people on foot, on bikes and mopeds and in and on the other vehicles I interact with in traffic whilst at the same time they are responsible for mine. And I've wondered more than once how many accidents are actually spur of the moment suicides.

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Honestly I kind of feel bad for the guy. He didn’t put up much of a fight and he sounded very shocked and sad at what he did. Now his career is over and as he’s

by yadaeno 3y ago

lamontcg 3y ago
It kinda makes more sense to me that he was taking something like Ambien and had an episode.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  Apparently he was experimenting with mushrooms and had a psychosis. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/alaska-airlines-off-duty-pilot-arraignment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/alaska-airlines-off-du...
  - kayfox 3y ago
    The mushroom thing was between 6 months ago and now, its not clear from the affidavit when it was.
    - jacquesm 3y ago
      In the article it says 48 hours after consumption but it isn't quite a hard statement on when he took it.
jacquesm 3y ago
I've seen two spur-of-the-moment suicides from up close and it's devastating to everybody involved but these did not put anybody else at risk. But from watching the aftermath it's clear to me that the people involved never really thought about the effect on others much, they just acted. This is indeed super sad. And I get your rationalization but the list of such instances that did succeed is rather longer than I'm comfortable with and the only difference seems to be that those people succeeded where this guy did not. It may have been a very short moment. Scary stuff. You realize when driving that not only am I responsible for the lives of those in my vehicle and the people on foot, on bikes and mopeds and in and on the other vehicles I interact with in traffic whilst at the same time they are responsible for mine. And I've wondered more than once how many accidents are actually spur of the moment suicides.