Those Darn Drunk Regional Pilots!

[buscap]

Not only are regional pilots untrained and dangerous, they drink too much!! Something has got to be done!! Maybe a congressional hearing?

(CNN) -- Dutch police said they pulled a U.S. pilot from a commercial airplane Tuesday shortly before takeoff and arrested him after he took a breath test that showed he had consumed alcohol over the permitted limit.
The 52-year-old captain, from Woodbury, New Jersey, blew a blood alcohol content of 0.023 percent, a spokesman for the Netherlands Police Agency told CNN. Under Federal Aviation Administration rules, pilots are not permitted to to operate or attempt to operate aircraft within eight hours of having consumed alcohol.
The flight was canceled and the captain was fined 700 euros ($911), said the spokesman, who declined to discuss any further flight details.
Delta Air Lines, however, said Tuesday that one of its flights scheduled between Amsterdam, Netherlands and Newark, New Jersey, was canceled out of concern that a crew member appeared unfit for duty.
The company said it is cooperating with local authorities as well as launching its own internal investigation. The crew member has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry, Delta said in a statement.

 

[SLUF4]

i think it's a stretch to say he was drunk....

 

[Gr82Aviate]

Not only are regional pilots untrained and dangerous, they drink too much!! Something has got to be done!! Maybe a congressional hearing?

(CNN) -- Dutch police said they pulled a U.S. pilot from a commercial airplane Tuesday shortly before takeoff and arrested him after he took a breath test that showed he had consumed alcohol over the permitted limit.
The 52-year-old captain, from Woodbury, New Jersey, blew a blood alcohol content of 0.023 percent, a spokesman for the Netherlands Police Agency told CNN. Under Federal Aviation Administration rules, pilots are not permitted to to operate or attempt to operate aircraft within eight hours of having consumed alcohol.
The flight was canceled and the captain was fined 700 euros ($911), said the spokesman, who declined to discuss any further flight details.
Delta Air Lines, however, said Tuesday that one of its flights scheduled between Amsterdam, Netherlands and Newark, New Jersey, was canceled out of concern that a crew member appeared unfit for duty.
The company said it is cooperating with local authorities as well as launching its own internal investigation. The crew member has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry, Delta said in a statement.

I thought the General was an F.O. ????

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Drunk and BAC of .023 don't belong in the same sentence.

DL is an 8 hour rule and zero tolerance on any alcohol in your system.... so he was in violation of the FOM. Off to rehab...

 

[Flybywire44]

Just a fine? Word.

 

[Long Time Gone]

The 0.023 doesn't prove that he drank within the 8 hours, either. The zero tolerance policy is the only issue.

 

[Dornier 335]

The breathalyzer test is itself inaccurate. Check the majors forum for more info. Should you ever be in doubt, request a blood test. That is the only correct measurement of your BAC.

 

[the palm]

This will get swept under the rug. Had it been a "regional" pilot the pitchforks and torches would have come out.

 

[CX880]

52 years old??

 

[trip]

Don't matter he was over the limit and to still be in your system (they smelled it on him first) you were on a bender or inside of 8 maybe both. He was drunk.