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Offline airguard

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British airways crew grounded by alcholtest
« on: November 11, 2003, 08:46:42 PM »
Sad but true, its going on again, but this is not only a BA problem i guess.
the flight from oslo to uk was delayed cause of the crew was drunk, and tested positive on alcholol tests

the whole story here for those who can read norwegian/swedish/danish:

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=201198
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« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2003, 05:39:19 AM »
Bah, if a man can't have a drink nowadays...

the ones crashing into buildings don't drink alcohool, sheesh....
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« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2003, 05:42:49 AM »
Can't read it...what is the story?  The crews on the planes were drunk?
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British airways crew grounded by alcholtest
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2003, 06:43:46 AM »
LOl saw, guess youre right.

Yes they was drunk, both pilot and copilot lol :( !

I dont think I woulda liked to be  a passenger with a drunk pilot and copilot lol.
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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2003, 08:06:53 AM »
In the 70's we used to travel back & forth from here to Indonesia (it wasn't a one flight trip like today, used to be 7 or 8 stops and plane changes back then).

During the flight from Teheran to Bombay, we were flying on a chinese airliner (a Boeing, don't remember what model exactly) our plane did a full roll, quite a few poeple were injured (My mum says there was a chinese guy sittin next to us who broke his leg). the pilot turned out to be completely pissed. I was about 4 years old, had lots of fun :)
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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2003, 08:11:37 AM »
Once on a flight from Seattle to Kodiak in the late 70's the pilot pulled out a harmonica and played Peg O' My Heart while dipping the wings to the music. Don't know if he was drunk, but I soon was.
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British airways crew grounded by alcholtest
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2003, 09:40:54 AM »
While not acceptable, there's not too many accidents caused by intoxication and thankfully no big airliners are included.

http://aviation-safety.net/events/FCA.shtml
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