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US Pilot arrested

  • 12-11-2009 10:18am
    #1
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭


    http://news.aol.com/article/united-airlines-pilot-erwin-vermont/762501
    LONDON, England (Nov. 10) - British police said they stopped a United Airlines pilot from flying while intoxicated earlier this week, pulling him from a Boeing 767 aircraft at London's Heathrow airport and charging him with being on duty while his blood-alcohol level was over the limit.Scotland Yard said that Erwin Vermont Washington, 51, was taken off the plane just before take-off Monday. Washington, of Lakewood, Colorado, has since been released on bail.
    United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said that "the pilot has been removed from service" during an investigation.
    "United's alcohol policy is among the strictest in the industry, and we have no tolerance for violation of this well-established policy," she said.
    Washington remains in the United Kingdom, Scotland Yard said.


Comments

  • #2
    Dacian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Dacian


    While this one employees behavious should not be seen as representative of the entire airline...........

    .................it must be said that United have been having a lot of bad press recently. Didn't one of their B767s land on a taxiway at Atlanta last month? and I think I read another incident with United about 2 weeks ago.


  • #3
    APM
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    It was a Delta airlines aircraft that landed on a taxiway.

    Silly silly boy going to work with any alcohol in the system (if found guilty)


  • #4
    Davidth88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Davidth88


    Believe me things have tightened up in this respect , correctly so.

    I have a friend who has flown ( down the back ) for a large international airline for 25 years . When he started it was normal on stopovers to get totally bladdered.

    Indeed on at least one occasion he ended up in the crew bunks sleeping it off .

    Now they get randomly breatherlised , and things at the briefing are much tighter.


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