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    • November 10, 2009

    Another Pilot Arrested on Suspicion of Drinking. How Tawdry.

    Filed under: American, Arrested, Drunk, United — anne @ 4:32 pm
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    Are you getting as sick of this as I am?

    The story: 100 passengers aboard a United jet on a runway at Heathrow were told to get off the plane – after they’d been sitting there for an hour.

    Why? They were told the pilot was “sick”. But he wasn’t sick. He’d been arrested. The charge was “suspicion of exceeding the prescribed alcohol limit.”

    He’s out on bail, and yes, United is saying all the usual things, like safety-is-our-highest-priority and we’ve-got-the-strictest-alcohol-policy-in-the-world, but you know what? None of that means anything if your people don’t do it.

    And it’s not just United – an American pilot ran into allegedly similar difficulties at Heathrow earlier this year.

    Is it really so difficult? Avoiding alcohol? I don’t think so. Millions of other people somehow manage to show up at work perfectly sober, day in and day out. Tawdry.
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