The flight from Buffalo to Fort Lauderdale was delayed for four hours on Wednesday after the co-pilot was flagged as possibly impaired at the security checkpoint.
The man was taken off the plane and given a breathalyzer test. He had a blood alcohol content of.17. Twelve hours bottle-to-throttle is not enough for a pilot to be drunk. That's less than the legal limit for driving a vehicle. The porcelain bus is the only thing you're prepared to drive.
The co-pilot was seen walking on the tarmac and being placed in a patrol car and released to the security of the airline.
It was a morning that passengers aboard a @JetBlue flight leaving Buffalo wish to forget, but they are safe! I'll have details tonight at 5 & 6 on Channel 2 @WGRZ (pix courtesy: BM) pic.twitter.com/HhCmUosozt
— Claudine Ewing (@ClaudineWgrz) March 2, 2022
The priority of the airline is safety. The pilot thought he was Gary Busey trying to explain who killed Bruce Lee.
Programs designed to encourage pilots with alcohol dependency to seek help may be too little, too late. When pilots hide alcohol abuse and mental health conditions, it shows a fundamental dilemma: you want pilots to be open and seek help in order to promote safety, but once they are open, they are a clearly identified risk and get removed from the cockpit. The consequences of being open discourage that openness. Many pilots have a fear of not trusting any commitments to help rather than punish. It's a problem because incidents like this are rare.
The pilot of the United flight from Austin to San Francisco was removed from the plane after making a strange rant in front of passengers about her divorce, her dislike of Trump and her support for Clinton.
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The agreement that would have allowed the pilots to move forward with their partnership with American Airllines was rejected. Most of the benefit from this deal is likely to be given to JetBlue pilots.
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A promotional flight between Long Beach and Burbank was won by a group of cyclists. Los Angeles is a descendant of the land of reality television. First came a clever marketing ploy.
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