FAA investigating possible drinking by pilot, attendant
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether a pilot and flight attendant were drunk on an AmericanConnection flight from Milwaukee to St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Web site, Stltoday.com, reported Tuesday.
Calls to the FAA and Trans States Airlines Inc. of suburban St. Louis, which operates the regional carrier AmericanConnection for American Airlines, were not returned.
The flight was in the early morning hours of Oct. 25. Trans States fired the captain and flight attendant last week after finding they violated the company's alcohol policy, spokesman Bill Mishk told the newspaper.
The policy prohibits on-duty crew members from drinking within 12 hours of departure time.
The newspaper said other pilots alerted the airline as the plane was in the air that the two had been drinking at a Milwaukee hotel bar the night before the 6:55 a.m. departure.
Flight supervisors met the pilot and attendant upon arrival at St. Louis' Lambert Airport and began the investigation, Mishk said.
Anybody here about this one?? Of course they were drunk while flying because they were at the hotel bar the night before.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether a pilot and flight attendant were drunk on an AmericanConnection flight from Milwaukee to St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Web site, Stltoday.com, reported Tuesday.
Calls to the FAA and Trans States Airlines Inc. of suburban St. Louis, which operates the regional carrier AmericanConnection for American Airlines, were not returned.
The flight was in the early morning hours of Oct. 25. Trans States fired the captain and flight attendant last week after finding they violated the company's alcohol policy, spokesman Bill Mishk told the newspaper.
The policy prohibits on-duty crew members from drinking within 12 hours of departure time.
The newspaper said other pilots alerted the airline as the plane was in the air that the two had been drinking at a Milwaukee hotel bar the night before the 6:55 a.m. departure.
Flight supervisors met the pilot and attendant upon arrival at St. Louis' Lambert Airport and began the investigation, Mishk said.
Anybody here about this one?? Of course they were drunk while flying because they were at the hotel bar the night before.
