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A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (24 children)

Sorry. Fucker may have killed everyone on board if he pulled the lever.

Don’t care if he had a hallucination or whatever from psychedelics (and I doubt that’s what happened, 40 hours after the fact.)

Doubt the sentencing would be the same if he were black.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (21 children)

Trust me, this guy’s life is over. He will probably never fly again, or be hired to do anything else as a convicted felon except scrub toilets or sell timeshares. He owes $60,000 in restitution just to the airline, not counting the cost of lawyers. He was technically sentenced to 50 days, which has been served during the court process. The federal prosecutor being as strict as they come, only wanted a year in prison.

He’ll live as a recovering alcoholic who will forever carry the shame and weight of this mistake for the rest of his life, fully known to his friends, family, his entire former workplace, and most of the general public. And his best friend is dead.

Rest assured, I think he’s been punished quite severely.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Rest assured, I think he’s been punished quite severely.

Not that I disagree with what you wrote, but tell this to those people sitting in prison for a bag of weed or other bullshit charges.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 19 points 1 day ago

The fact that they were unjustly imprisoned isn't a good reason to waste taxpayer money throwing this guy in prison.

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