Alleged Drunken Pilot Forced Off American Plane.
A pilot getting ready to fly a commercial plane that blows a .12 on a Breathalyzer at 6 am, just might need a little help.
Wonder why he’s in the custody of American and not the authorities. Blowing a .12 should constitute public intoxication.
So, blowing .04 is OK??? :eek:
You can have several beers the night before, and still have a .04 the next morning, so, yeah. I’d bet he got really hammered until late, late at night.
In any case, you’re right, this guy needs help. Help walking, help finding his plane, help with the seatbelt…
Finding Dallas…
Huh. Wouldn’t have expected WOOD-TV to be a news station.
Anyways. Looks like the Cap’n pulled a bit of a party night prior to flying out. Good thing the passengers were paying attention. Even though passenger planes pretty much fly themselves these days, and there’s always a co-pilot, it’s still extremely disconcerting to think about what may have happened if the captain made an error in his intoxicated state.
I’m assuming he’ll lose his job over this. Right?
Send him to the next White Sox, Royals game.
He’ll be right at home.
Man, I can’t count how many times I’ve woken up and looked on the tarmac, just to see if my plane is there.
Hahhhhahhahhahh!!!
It’s such a pain when you go home with another airline and can’t remember where you left the jet…
The shocking part is this was not in Souith Florida!
“You are now free to stagger randomly about the country.”
There was a documentary on British TV about a year ago on the subject of drunk pilots. Partying well into the night and getting up to fly a plane after a couple of hours sleep seemed to be the name of the game for some of these folk.
I am damned if I can remember which channel showed the documentary. There were hidden cameras, and journalists posed as off-duty pilots. There was a flight simulator test where test subjects had to drink a certain amount of vodka and orange and then try to land. All caused a bit of a furore.
Years ago, before they gave pilots random breathalyzer tests, I heard a former pilot once talk about routinely flying coast to coast in a blackout. That really helped THIS nervous flyer’s confidence! :eek: