Delta Pilot Indicted for Allegedly Threatening to Shoot Captain Over Potential Flight Diversion

Former Delta airlines pilot and Air Force officer was removed from duty for refusal to get coronavirus vaccine before allegedly threatening to shoot a flight captain over a dispute about diverting the plane.

The former Delta airlines pilot, Jonathan Dunn, who threatened to shoot a flight captain over a dispute about a potential flight diversion, had previously challenged the Air Force’s coronavirus vaccine mandate to the U.S. Supreme Court citing religious grounds.
Dunn had refused to get the coronavirus vaccine and was removed from his command after serving for nearly two decades as a pilot, trainer, and commander in the Air Force.
Dunn had received numerous other vaccines and had already recovered from a COVID-19 infection — but viewed the coronavirus vaccine as something that had taken a “symbolic” and “sacramental quality.”
Dunn flew airliners for Delta airlines after his military service and was indicted for allegedly threatening to shoot a flight captain over a dispute about diverting the plane due to a passenger’s “medical event”.
After the incident, the TSA immediately removed Dunn from the Federal Flight Deck Officer program that arms certain pilots to “defend the flight deck of commercial aircraft from takeover.”
Dunn is due to be arraigned on Nov. 16 in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, and if convicted faces up to 20 years in prison.