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The off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to shut down the engines of an airborne plane last month after taking magic mushrooms thought he was dreaming and had questioned if he was in hell, he said in an interview published Saturday. Joseph Emerson, 44, told The New York Times in a jailhouse interview in Portland , Oregon , that when he took the psychedelics around a campfire — which he had never taken before — on Oct. 20, two days before the incident, he dwelled on events in his past.
Emerson told a Portland, Oregon, police officer that he thought he was dreaming and wanted to wake up, according to court documents, something Emerson also told the Times. “I thought it would stop both engines, the plane would start to head towards a crash, and I would wake up,” Emerson told the newspaper. Emerson also said he had been depressed and that he believed he was experiencing a mental breakdown, authorities have said.
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