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Off-duty pilot may have been on psychedelic mushrooms when he tried to shut off plane engines, official says

The flight started normally, with two pilots and an off-duty colleague in the cockpit talking about the weather as they took off from Seattle for San Francisco a few minutes ahead of schedule. But the Horizon Air flight ended about as strangely as it could: An emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. The off-duty pilot handcuffed and strapped to a seat in the back of the plane after allegedly ...
The FBI is investigating whether an off-duty pilot who tried to shut down the engines of an in-flight jetliner on Sunday was on psychedelic mushrooms.

The flight started normally, with two pilots and an off-duty colleague in the cockpit talking about the weather as they took off from Seattle for San Francisco a few minutes ahead of schedule.

But the Horizon Air flight ended about as strangely as it could: An emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. The off-duty pilot handcuffed and strapped to a seat in the back of the plane after allegedly trying to shut off fuel to the engine. And an investigation by the FBI into whether he was

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