At the time, Emerson told police he was grieving a friend’s death, had taken psychedelic mushrooms around two days earlier, and had gone more than 40 hours without sleep.

Believing he was dreaming, he said he pulled the handles in an attempt to wake himself up, according to the Associated Press.

Everyone felt like he was fine to be in that cockpit? were there no signs before this point? that’s wild

Seems like whoever let him in the cockpit should be facing the bulk of the consequences.

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Looks like the Walmart version of that actor from law and order