Not Again!!?!

[The Prussian]

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.



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[JoeMerchant]

There must be a mistake...MAJOR airlines always hire only the best. It must be a Delta Connection flight.....:laugh:

 

[goodgig]

Wow. Going to be hard to recover from that one.

 

[RedDogC130]

general......general...anyone heard from the general today?

 

[jonjuan]

Isn't this an interview scenario: "What do you when the other pilot shows up and is obviously drunk?"

 

[RedDogC130]

I would ask him why was I not invited.

 

[Metro752]

Hhahahaha

 

[GuppyWN]

The pilots didn't lobby at the same time? Or share the van ride to the airport together?

Somebody wasn't a good co-worker. You've GOT to bail your buddy out because he obviously can't do it for himself.

Gup

 

[spudskier]

How scary and sad... if he's an alcoholic, it's a disease and hopefully he'll get the help he needs as well as find a new way to be productive in society. if not, he threw his career away for a lil alcohol. (or a lot)

I'd be curious who alerted authorities and why the captain didn't put the kiebash on the whole thing before it got that far. At the very least he could have told the FO to call in sick or he'd call in sick for him and then gotten the FO the help he needed when he was back state-side. Now the poor shmuck is stuck in European courts. Sounds like our double-breasted captain failed as a human being and friend as well.

 

[densoo]

This should never have happened. Somebody, somewhere along the way, needed to make sure this guy didn't go through security.