Posted on 03/02/2022 8:29:08 PM PST by BenLurkin
A JetBlue pilot was removed from the cockpit of a Fort Lauderdale-bound flight by police at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in New York on Wednesday after registering a blood-alcohol level of 0.17%, more than four times the Federal Aviation Administration's limit of 0.04%.
The pilot was passing through airport security when a Transportation Security Administration officer noticed he was acting drunk, The Buffalo News reported. The officer notified Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police, who administered a breathalyzer test. He was taken into custody before being released to JetBlue security personnel.
The pilot has been identified as James Clifton, 52, of Orlando, Fla.
The FAA told NPR it "is investigating allegations that an airline pilot attempted to report for duty while under the influence of alcohol. The agency takes these matters seriously."
The FAA prohibits pilots from consuming alcohol while on duty or within eight hours of performing flight duties. FAA regulations also prohibit pilots from flying or attempting to fly an aircraft if their alcohol concentration is 0.04% or greater, which is half the legal limit in the U.S. of 0.08%.
JetBlue Flight 2465 was scheduled to depart Buffalo for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at 6:15 a.m. but was delayed more than four hours, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
Fly high with JetBlue!
Hey, it worked out for Brother Den-zel. I saw the movie!
“Eight hours bottle to throttle.”
Or maybe it HAD been 8 hours and he started out at .300.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk
Was it this guy?
(Foster Brooks and Dean Martin, 4.5 minutes long)
We are talking Florida Man here and 0.17 is nothing for him!
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.
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.
He was the only one that could get the plane to a crash landing.
But, still lost a few....
Classic.
The pilot soon to be known as “former pilot”
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!”
.17?
Is that bad?
I always try to bat at least .250, preferably .300.
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.
Any pilot would have to be drunk to pilot the Flying Circus of Jet Blue ghetto airlines.
He might be one of them that flies better drunk.
When the Cockpit becomes a Crock-Pit.
Are you sure thats not just vwhile in some work window?
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