Airline Pilot Arrested On Alcohol Charge

United Airlines First Officer Was Set To Fly From London To San Francisco When Taken Into Custody At Heathrow

(CBS/AP)  United Airlines says one of its pilots has been arrested by police for being over the legal alcohol limit.

The airline says the first officer was due to join the crew of flight 955 from London's Heathrow Airport to San Francisco when he was arrested early Sunday morning. London's Metropolitan Police say the pilot was arrested following a breath test but has since been bailed.

The Sun, a British newspaper, reported that the 44-year-old American pilot was marched off the flight by cops as passengers looked on.

"We couldn’t believe what we were seeing. The pilot was frog-marched off the aircraft," the newspaper quoted one unidentified passenger as saying.

The Sun said police acted on a tip from the ground crew.

United said Monday that the man - whose name was not given - was one of three pilots due to fly the plane to the United States.

It says he has been removed from service and that the company is investigating the incident.

The legal limit for pilots is nine micrograms of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath.

[jocly52]

It''''s all fun and games until somebody gets an eye put out.
Posted by Sky_Five Then its just fun!

[easeup-2009]

What the hell is being "frog-marched" mean?

Is that a new fangled torture method?

LOL

Posted by slim1h2o at 03:21 PM : Oct 21, 2008

He''s English--it''s probably the way police remove a drunken soccer hooligan.

[slim1h2o]

"We couldn%u2019t believe what we were seeing. The pilot was frog-marched off the aircraft," the newspaper quoted one unidentified passenger as saying.

What the hell is being "frog-marched" mean?

Is that a new fangled torture method?

LOL

[easeup-2009]

You gotta drink vodka in the morning--it''s much harder to smell.

Fricking amateur...

[w5cdt-2009]

This pilot is an alcoholic. Being drunk in the morning isn''t normal. He also well understands the consequences of flying at or above 0.04% BAC or 8 hours bottle to throttle. These numbers are on your written FAA exam. Sad story. I''m glad they caught him. His career is probably toast however.

[cessna172_]

For myself I didn''t discover flying until later on in life which means that I didn''t go thru the airforce .

Aquiring an FAA lisence along with the rest of the neccesary ratings to fly commercialy is extremely difficult now .

The individual was obviously playing the previous evening after his flight landed in London and he certainly is one of the Sr pilots in the airline working his way up that ladder .

I also don''t have any sympathy for the 1st officer either, I''m busting my hump aquiring these credentials just to fly corporately .

I think he''s taking his lisence and ratings for granted anymore, once you lose your lisence my friend you don''t get it back !

[jtormey3]

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