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The scary in-air situation renews questions about airline cockpit security and flight crew screenings raised by past tragedies, from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist hijackings to incidents of mentally anguished pilots seizing control of aircraft and crashing them.
New court documents say an off-duty airline pilot who tried to cut the engines on a flight in mid-air told police he had recently taken psychedelic mushrooms as his mental
An off-duty commercial pilot riding in an extra cockpit seat on a Horizon Air flight said "I'm not OK" just before trying to cut the engines midflight and later told police he had recently taken psychedelic mushrooms as his mental health worsened, according to a federal complaint made public Tuesday.