A JetBlue pilot was removed from the cockpit and registered 0.17% on a breathalyzer

npr ^ | March 2, 20227:52 PM ET | JEFF DEAN

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Fly high with JetBlue!

[Still Thinking]

Hey, it worked out for Brother Den-zel. I saw the movie!

[GnuThere]

“Eight hours bottle to throttle.”
Or maybe it HAD been 8 hours and he started out at .300.

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk

Was it this guy?

(Foster Brooks and Dean Martin, 4.5 minutes long)

[Clay Moore]

We are talking Florida Man here and 0.17 is nothing for him!

[takebackaustin]

I learned something interesting in in driver’s ed for ticket dismissal.

( I have commercial/instrument, ASMEL )

If you are stopped for DWI in Texas and your profession is Commercial Pilot, they can ticket you with the more stringent blood alcohol limits that apply to pilots. There was some other profession that set different limits as well, but I forget what it was.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Unreal. When is Pelosi going to be arrested for clearly being on something during the SOTU? She obviously has a lot more responsibility than a pilot as her decisions can destroy millions of lives, yet there she was Tuesday night standing up and acting like a school girl watching Justin Bieber when Biden was babbling....

[Born in 1950]

Anyone in a position of responsibility on a public conveyance found impaired should get time, real time, long time. No kidding.. ten years.. twenty.

While I’m at it.. Anyone who tosses something from an overpass onto traffic.. death.

PS: There is little more obnoxious than a drunk trying to pass as sober.

[SaveFerris]

He was the only one that could get the plane to a crash landing.

But, still lost a few....

[BenLurkin]

Classic.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The pilot soon to be known as “former pilot”

[Still Thinking]

My partner’s a pilot and if somebody asks how far his plane will glide if he loses the engine he says “All the way to the crash site!”

[Vendome]

.17?

Is that bad?

[Still Thinking]

I always try to bat at least .250, preferably .300.

[cpdiii]

Most sad. He will probably never fly again for an airline again. Even more sad is the years of training and flying to reach this level. He or it is a she Fuc-ed up.

[Organic Panic]

Any pilot would have to be drunk to pilot the Flying Circus of Jet Blue ghetto airlines.

[Secret Agent Man]

He might be one of them that flies better drunk.

[lee martell]

When the Cockpit becomes a Crock-Pit.

[BiglyCommentary]

Are you sure thats not just vwhile in some work window?