Skip to comments.
Airline Crew Arrested
Fox News
| 7/1/02
Posted on 07/01/2002 1:44:39 PM PDT by pabianice
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-98 last
To: dead
I'm gonna go with drunken flying. Good call!
Pilot:"Note to self: Don't drink in the airport bar just before take-off. Also, don't forget the Certs."
To: SamAdams76
Hey, that guy with Leslie Nielsen, isn't that George Costanza's Dad??
To: pabianice
Having flown that God-forsaken airline more times than I care to remember, I am downright cheered at this news. They ought to arrest everyone from the CEO on down to the toilet scrubber for gross incompetency and plain rudeness.
To: pabianice
Having flown that God-forsaken airline more times than I care to remember, I am downright cheered at this news. They ought to arrest everyone from the CEO on down to the toilet scrubber for gross incompetency and plain rudeness.
To: dead
The only excuse for flying sober on a plane with a drunk crew, is being too stingy to spend your whole months liquor allowance on one pre-flight binge in the airport bar.
Having no way of knowing the degree of sobriety the crew of the upcoming flight may be in, the experienced airline customer prepares for the worst. That is why burp bags were the first freebies introduced by the airlines.
To: SandyEgo
The Man Show did a funny skit on drunken pilots a few days ago..... In the otherwise very disappointing Cheech and Chong film, "Still Smokin'", there's a hilarious and completely amazing sequence where a character flies a small corporate jet in for a landing while extremely stoned.
In a stunt that was obviously actually performed instead of done with special effects, the stunt pilot skews the plane almost sideways, does half a roll, and several other astounding "wobbles" while the jet comes right down to the runway.
86
posted on
07/01/2002 2:57:30 PM PDT
by
Dan Day
To: F.J. Mitchell
MSNBC just reported breathalyzer results: I think they said .081 and .089 respectively...
To: Shermy
made the arrests Monday afternoon after ground crew workers reported smelling alcohol on the pilot and officer. I'm sure it's all a terrible mistake, they were just trying out the new bourbon-scented cologne from Jack Daniels, it's the latest "name brand" fashion line like the Tabasco ties...
88
posted on
07/01/2002 3:03:37 PM PDT
by
Dan Day
To: HairOfTheDog
MSNBC just reported breathalyzer results: I think they said .081 and .089 respectively...Ruhlly? You mean we're not kidding here? Is .081 drunk?
I knew a captain for Continental who was an alcoholic. So nothing surprises moi.
To: pabianice
If its anything like DUI, they will be back in the air in no time and can repeat this incident many times until they kill someone.
To: PoisedWoman
Yeah I am serious that I heard it! And yes .08 is the legal driving limit in a lot of states...
The Federal Aviation Regulations have a much lower legal limit... .04 (Airlines obviously have a .00 limit as a policy)
To: mrfixit514
Federal Aviation Regulations can pull their license for an alcohol-related driving arrest, let alone flying. The airlines and the feds don't have tolerance for this... Their careers just ended.
To: PoisedWoman
Think the drinking rule is 24 Hours or is it 24 feet from the aircraft?
I keep forgetting.
To: HairOfTheDog
Wow!, those guys were already in the air when their plane showed up.
To: HairOfTheDog
"Their careers just ended."
Thank God for that-who needs terrorists when air crews are to drunk to distinguish between a runway and a sky scraper?
To: F.J. Mitchell
Well, not to excuse anything above .00 when flying, you may be overstating it a bit. .08 is barely buzzed. I remember in college taking a breathalyzer to see what .10 "felt" like, and I was surprised to learn that at .10, I still would have called myself sober.
To: HairOfTheDog
Well, not to excuse anything above .00 when flying, you may be overstating it a bit. .08 is barely buzzed. I remember in college taking a breathalyzer to see what .10 "felt" like, and I was surprised to learn that at .10, I still would have called myself sober. I agree that .08 does not constitute "drunk." But any pilot flying for a major airline carrier has it drummed into their heads over and over again that any amount of drinking 24 hours before a flight is unacceptable. Pilots are very well compensated (average $80,000 a year salary) and get plenty of time off between duty cycles to quaff beers. So I have little sympathy for them. They had to know the rules and the consequences of being caught breaking them.
To: SamAdams76
Agreed... no pity for the pilots should have been implied from what I said... When I said their careers are over, I was not feeling any sympathy for them... Any pilot (I am a pilot myself) has it drummed into them that alcohol is not allowed anywhere near you when flying. When I was in college with a bunch of other future pilots who loved to party, we crossed a lot of lines, but never that one.
I just wanted to keep our FRiend honest about their actual state of drunkeness... Their sin was big enough without exaggerating it.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-98 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson