American Airlines Pilot Fails Breathalyzer (Before London Flight)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

American Airlines confirms that one of their pilots was arrested after failing a breathalyzer test at Heathrow Wednesday, CBS News has learned. He had been scheduled to fly a flight from Heathrow to Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

The airline issued the following statement:

"An American Airlines pilot was arrested at London Heathrow airport yesterday (Wednesday, 20 May) having failed a breathalyser test. Police had been called by airport staff working at the security control post.

The male pilot was due to operate flight AA87; the 10.15 London - Chicago scheduled service. The pilot was replaced and following a delay, the flight departed at 11.30am. No other operations were affected by the incident.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/21/national/main5030949.shtml

[Xipe Totec]

1. Here's video of the test being administered....

:evilgrin:

Breathalyzer Test Fail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gTLZwVE9c


:rofl:

[konnichi wa]

2. He was accustomed to Budweiser

and got nailed by some actual beer.

:D

[leveymg]

3. He would've sobered up by the time they hit O'Hare.

More or less.

[NV Whino]

4. With pilots like this, who needs terrorists.

[XemaSab]

5. Reminds me of the Simpsons:

"This is the pilots' bar; you can't drink in here!" :o

(And of course the bar is called the Black Box. :D )

[medeak]

6. wacko pilot called our hotel room in Italy last month

(flight was canceled day before and we were rebooked on another flight two days later) He screamed at my husband that he was in charge and not Delta and to get our asses to the airport right now. Very disturbed phone call...we got to airport to be told the flight was still canceled. wtf? Was SO RELIEVED I didn't have to fly with this individual.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. I won't even consider driving my truck after ONE beer

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and this guy was considering flying an airplane across an ocean with hundreds of people's lives in his hands?

I do surely hope that he will never be allowed to fly again;

and gets medical help for his alcohol problem.

[predfan]

8. I wish I had a quarter for everytime I failed a breathalyzer test at the airport,

scheduled to fly a flight from Heathrow to O'Hare.

I damn sure wouldn't be doing this today.