Dont People Ever Learn?

[dispatchguy]

Dont people ever learn, you dont show up to the airport with booze on your breath?

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S262046.shtml?cat=1

 

[njcapt]

I'm assuming the nitwits at the station failed to transcribe from the police report properly. A .016 is below the threshold for a FAA bust - a .16 is a whole other animal. More evidence, unfortunately, that the FFDO screening process is a waste of time. Most of the psycho testing is geared toward your drinking habits, and obviously they are not getting accurate information. This, from a former officer.

 

[Jetpipeovht]

I'm assuming the nitwits at the station failed to transcribe from the police report properly. A .016 is below the threshold for a FAA bust - a .16 is a whole other animal. More evidence, unfortunately, that the FFDO screening process is a waste of time. Most of the psycho testing is geared toward your drinking habits, and obviously they are not getting accurate information. This, from a former officer.

I can agree with that. I have run into quite a few tools that are FFDO's that have no business carrying a gun.

 

[JPAustin]

I can agree with that. I have run into quite a few tools that are FFDO's that have no business carrying a gun.

A few "Shakiest guns in the west" types out there.

 

[XJdriver]

Here is the original title for the article. When it came on the news last night Bob McNaney the sself proclaimed aviation specialist was saying all over TV news that this guys is an armed FFDO giving his name and showing video of FFDO training. He then said that the guy blew a 0.016 which is twice the legal limit to drive in MN. It was a big news story really smearing this guy. Now you try to find the video clip from the news and it is gone and the article title and contents are totally different. I think they realized how bad they screwed up here. Someone missread where the decimal point was!!!

Then to say all over the news this guys name and that he is an armed FFDO is totally scary. This guy and his family just became a huge target for terrorists. I only hope that the news team figures out how bad they screwed up here. I am really sick of all the missinformation this guy is always talking about here in the twin cities. He really potentially did a lot of damage with this one.




Pilot arrested at MSP airport for being drunk, carrying weapon

 

[Andy Neill]

Dont people ever learn, you dont show up to the airport with booze on your breath?

I'm assuming the nitwits at the station failed to transcribe from the police report properly. A .016 is below the threshold for a FAA bust - a .16 is a whole other animal. More evidence, unfortunately, that the FFDO screening process is a waste of time. Most of the psycho testing is geared toward your drinking habits, and obviously they are not getting accurate information. This, from a former officer.

Will there be any revision of remarks from these 2?

 

[1031Guy]

Came out today that KSTP misprinted the results of the test and the pilot was WELL below the FAA and company limit...F$%$ing media!!!

They (the media) botched a story about one of our pilots last year. Ends up the guy wasn't even close, but do you think the media would ever print a follow up admitting their mistakes...never.

A Midwest Airlines pilot arrested in his cockpit at the Twin Cities airport on suspicion of drinking had a blood-alcohol level within both the legal limit and his employer's standard for flying, his attorney and the airline said today.

The 46-year-old pilot was arrested on the afternoon of Nov. 12 at the Twin Cities International Airport as he prepared the plane for takeoff to Milwaukee, said Pat Hogan, spokesman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
He was detained for a few hours, given a breath-alcohol test and released, Hogan said. Charges have yet to be filed. Hogan said the pilot cooperated fully with airport police.
Airline spokesman Michael Brophy said that the pilot had a blood-alcohol reading of 0.016 and not the 0.16 that KSTP-TV had reported Monday night.
"The damaging part," Brophy said, was that the television station said the reading was "twice the legal limit [to drive]. ... That was false."
The pilot's attorney, Arthur Martinez, of Minneapolis, said his client's alcohol reading was 0.01, "if anything." Martinez added that the pilot did not violate any airline rules or laws about time refraining from drinking before flying.
Brophy said his airline requires pilots to refrain from consuming alcohol for 10 hours before flying and have an alcohol reading of no more than 0.02. He said the federal standards are eight hours and 0.04.
Hogan would not divulge the pilot's alcohol reading but agreed that KSTP's report of 0.16 was inaccurate. "It was not that high," he said.
KSTP this morning removed from its website its story citing a 0.16 reading. Its online video report this morning said the reading was 0.016 and that the pilot was accused of "being drunk" and failed two of three field sobriety tests. Messages left for two station managers seeking comment were not immediately returned.
Hogan also said that the pilot was armed at the time but was licensed to carry a weapon while on duty. Hogan said that pilots being arrested for alcohol use "happens very rarely."

 

[njcapt]

Will there be any revision of remarks from these 2?

Nope. Just the observation that the TV station and the MSP cops are clueless about what constitutes intoxication when it comes to the FAA - why was he arrested if his BAC was below even Midwest's restrictive policy?. I should be ashamed of myself for ever believing a media outlet's relation of events surrounding aviation, though.

I feel awful for the pilot, who quite possibly did nothing wrong. Outing him as a FFDO is just the icing on the cake.

 

[Mr Wu]

We should start showing up to the TSA checkpoints at 6am and start smelling their breaths for alcohol...

 

[Shrek]

We should start showing up to the TSA checkpoints at 6am and start smelling their breaths for alcohol...

Boondock Saints is a CLASSIC..........thx bud

 

[dispatchguy]

THen, I stand corrected.

 

[1031Guy]

I can't believe the press actually admitted their mistake in print. But then they print his name ??


Pilot arrested had blood alcohol level of 0.016
Airport police say they will not file charges against a Midwest Airlines pilot who was arrested at the airport before a flight last week.

As we first reported last night at 10:00 p.m., XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX was not allowed to fly Midwest flight 5 from the Twin Cities to Milwaukee on November 12th.

Airport police say he was removed from the cockpit after security officers reported smelling alcohol when Acree arrived for his flight.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS reviewed an investigative report which said Acree had a blood-alcohol level of 0.016. For a time overnight on KSTP.COM, we mistakenly referred to that number as 0.16 That was incorrect.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the airline say their investigations are continuing.

 

[dickie q]

I surely hope that he is suing both the TV news station AND the TSA for this. We can't have idiots detaining us because they think that they smell alcohol.

 

[BEfly]

He should try vodka, not so smelly.