I can’t imagine the thought process. “I haven’t slept for 3 days, and I’m tripping balls, but hey let’s get ready for work”.
Didn’t the crewmembers notice the odd behavior, the fixation on seemingly innocuous, mundane everyday items, the periodic “oh wow, man, is that you, or is that me?”. (Never mind the tie-die T-shirt and a groovy direct-to-board recording of the Dead at the Fillmore in August, 1970 over the intercom). “Known or should have known” applies here.
I assumed it was something like that but I thought it looked like Johnny Cash.
one thing: 
(no expert here, whatsoever) … but don’t most drugs have the potential to trigger a psychotic episode? … so maybe the mushrooms just pulled back the curtain - and what was behind the curtain, was not nice, warm and fuzzy…
IOW: maybe the root-cause were the 'shrooms, but the deed proper was a psychotic short-circuit (for lack of better wording)
ETA:
do we already know (“black box” or captain’s interview) if this was meant as an ill conceived joke or something funny … or was it more like “I will kill all around here by pulling those levers”
I have a hard time parsing either … but it prob. helps understanding the situation better
I’ve always thought it looked like Dersu Uzala…
Hallucinogens are definitely (well, anecdotally) capable of triggering a psychotic episode, but to be fair, any time you haven’t slept for 3 days you’re likely not in your right mind. Insomnia all by its own is very powerful.
agreed … let’s roll all of the before mentioned into a “stupidity cocktail”
Even if you think you’re rolling on the safe side of a chemical vacation there is still the unknown of what is actually mixed with it. In my area e’re getting an increase in xylazine mixed in with other drugs. Narcan won’t help in an overdose. What this pilot took could have been laced with anything.
The idea of drugs being “laced” with something else is a bit overblown in my experience. Keep in mind that it all comes down to profit. Xylazine isn’t cheap and adds little to the ketamine experience, for example. Neither is reversed by naloxone.
I once smoked some cannabis with a woman who get the weed from her brother. Turns out it was “laced” with PCP, but her brother had paid extra for it specifically because of this. He gave some to his sister as a prank. Interesting evening, it was.
I would be interested in knowing how you intended to physically get 12 people all into the cabin space of a Cessna 150. It would be like stuffing a phone booth.
The same way you would fit 100 otters on a plane surely?
Fire them from a cannon through the spinning propeller, provided the windshield opens?
Are we talking an Otter, a twin Otter(s), or a Beaver.
Brilliant!
Easily worth a 25 year old Talisker.
Will I win cheesecake or strudel?
I see the mushrooms have kicked in…
Story about another airline pilot who lost it in mid-air.
Pilotless aircraft are starting to look better.
Well, not really. But sheesh.
So you won’t be using MuskAir anytime soon?
Good point. If Musk wants The Site Formerly Known as Twit-X to be a dating app and a bank, would airline be next?
(Before space taxi…?)