Drunk airBaltic crew included co-pilot at seven times legal alcohol limit

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/18/drunken-airbaltic-crew-included-co-pilot-at-seven-times-legal-alcohol-limit
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A Norwegian court has sentenced a Latvian airBaltic co-pilot to six months in jail after he failed a breathalyser test before take-off from Oslo’s airport.

The 38-year-old man – who registered an alcohol level that was almost seven times the legal limit – admitted that he drank two bottles of whisky and some beer with the other crew members before the flight’s planned departure for Greece with around 100 passengers aboard on 8 August.

In his verdict the judge highlighted the co-pilot’s high level of intoxication, the number of people whose lives would have been endangered if he had flown the plane, the length of the flight and the fact that he must have known that his colleagues had also been drinking.

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Yes lock him up!

[PoliticAverse]

1. airAlcoholic? n/t

[nilesobek]

2. They do like to drink up there...

[HubertHeaver]

3. Its anti-freeze....yeah, that's it. Anti-freeze!

[Art_from_Ark]

4. What is the legal limit for pilots, anyway?

[Juicy_Bellows]

5. I was just going to ask.

.08 times 7 would be death. Found it, .04 for the FAA so he was sittin at .28 - hammered.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. .28-- I would feel like I was on death's door long before that

[Juicy_Bellows]

7. Yeah, i believe the medical term is

Shit faced.

No business in the air, I've seen passengers not allowed to fly far less drunk than that.

[stevenleser]

8. And we can scratch airBaltic from the list of any airlines I might fly. wtf. nt

[malaise]

9. You too