A former commercial airline pilot who tried to shut off the engines of a passenger plane mid-flight in 2023 was convicted Friday and sentenced to probation, but he still faces a federal sentencing, officials said. Joseph Emerson, who was off-duty and not piloting the Horizon Airlines flight but was riding along in a cockpit jump seat, has said he had taken the drug psilocybin, a hallucinogen known as magic mushrooms, before the Oct. 22, 2023, incident above Oregon and regrets it.

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