VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — After crashing through an airport’s gate and trying to hijack a plane, Bryan Parker admitted that he drank alcohol, snorted cocaine, and smoked marijuana after leaving an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, according to a video deputies released on Thursday.

Parker, 58, appeared in Volusia County court on Thursday, accused of driving his blue Ford Mustang through a locked gate at the Daytona Beach International Airport on Wednesday afternoon.

“I was at my house, and people started chasing me,” Parker told the Volusia deputy who put him in handcuffs, according to the video.

Parker, of Holly Hill, nearly crashed the Ford Mustang into a taxiing aircraft on a secondary runway in the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s area, and he got out of the car, according to Volusia Sheriff’s Office deputies.

Parker “ran to other aircraft in the area, an airport operations technician chased him down, pulled him out of a plane and sat him on his truck’s tailgate ... Parker jumped off the tailgate and ran toward another plane before he was once again apprehended and placed in handcuffs,” according to deputies.

Parker, who was barefoot, told a deputy he didn’t remember how he or his car got to the airport.

“I am tired ... I ran a lot,” Parker told a deputy, according to the video.

Parker faced charges of attempted aircraft piracy, two counts of exposure of sexual organs, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance, trespass upon operational area of an airport, criminal mischief, DUI crash with damage, refusal to submit to DUI testing, and DUI third offense within 10 years, records showed.

Parker was at the Volusia County Branch Jail after a Volusia County judge denied him bond.

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