COOPERVANE
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Surely this can't have happened again?
From the majors section:
Not Again!!?!
New York Post Article...
He loves to fly high and it showed.
A Delta pilot was so plastered when he was yanked from the cockpit of a Detroit-bound flight in London that he thought the plane was headed to the Big Apple, it was reported yesterday.
First Officer George LaPerle, 48, reeked of alcohol as he boarded Flight 5 at Heathrow Airport on Nov. 1 -- and he was sitting with his shoelaces untied at the controls when cops caught up to him, the London Sun reported.
The besotted Bostonian's blood-alcohol level was five times the legal limit for pilots, the newspaper said.
The airman was hauled off the Boeing 757, which was carrying 213 passengers, by Scotland Yard and kept in custody overnight.
LaPerle is due back in a British court Nov. 16 to face charges of being trashed on the tarmac.
Delta suspended the allegedly sloshed pilot pending the outcome of the case.
The incident is déjà vu for Delta. On Sept. 15, an allegedly soused pilot was taken off a flight from Amsterdam to Newark and arrested by Dutch authorities.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/interna...#ixzz14bXZNr78
From the majors section:
Not Again!!?!
New York Post Article...
He loves to fly high and it showed.
A Delta pilot was so plastered when he was yanked from the cockpit of a Detroit-bound flight in London that he thought the plane was headed to the Big Apple, it was reported yesterday.
First Officer George LaPerle, 48, reeked of alcohol as he boarded Flight 5 at Heathrow Airport on Nov. 1 -- and he was sitting with his shoelaces untied at the controls when cops caught up to him, the London Sun reported.
The besotted Bostonian's blood-alcohol level was five times the legal limit for pilots, the newspaper said.
The airman was hauled off the Boeing 757, which was carrying 213 passengers, by Scotland Yard and kept in custody overnight.
LaPerle is due back in a British court Nov. 16 to face charges of being trashed on the tarmac.
Delta suspended the allegedly sloshed pilot pending the outcome of the case.
The incident is déjà vu for Delta. On Sept. 15, an allegedly soused pilot was taken off a flight from Amsterdam to Newark and arrested by Dutch authorities.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/interna...#ixzz14bXZNr78
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