Pilots Under Pressure?

November 11, 2009 4:02 PM

A 51-year-old United Airlines pilot was pulled from the cockpit and arrested for being drunk. As Nancy Cordes reports, his arrest is the latest in a series of embarrassing incidents for pilots.

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