Jonathan Dunn, a pilot recently fired from Delta Airlines after pulling a gun midair on the flight’s chief pilot who had ordered the plane diverted to treat a passenger in medical distress in August 2022, isn’t new to legal issues: as a member of the US Air Force Reserve, he was also the chief plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Pentagon for mandating Covid vaccines, Military.com reports.
Authorized to carry a weapon on board thanks to post-9/11 regulations, Dunn threatened to pull the gun and shoot the pilot multiple times after the pilot decided to divert the flight to help the passenger. He is currently facing charges for interfering with the crew of a commercial airline and for using a dangerous weapon to assault and intimidate in a federal court in Utah.
Apparently still a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserves even after the gun-pulling incident, Dunn lost his April 2022 case before the Supreme Court challenging the Pentagon’s authority to punish him for refusing to get the Covid vaccine, claiming that he refused it on religious grounds because, he claimed, the vaccine was being treated with a “sacramental quality;” both the Air Force and the Supreme Court ruled against him, and he was ultimately stripped of his squadron command.