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A Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pilot scheduled to fly a plane out of Stockholm's Arlanda airport on Tuesday afternoon was stopped from leaving after failing a breathalyzer test.
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To increase safety in countries where they are less digilent within their airports, mabye every commerical aircraft should be equipped with a breathalizer machine in the passenger seating area. After the safety demonstration, all pilots could come out of the cockpit and blow into the breathalizer so that all of the passengers can see that they are fit to fly the aircraft.
http://www.pprune.org/medical-health/464983-sas-pilot-caught-drunk-last-sunday.html
I well recall drinking into the early hours with a Canadian pilot c/w aircrew and cabin staff, just a few hours before they were due to fly a 747 out of Tenerife.
I believe U.S. carriers prohibit pilot consumption of alcohol for 24 hours before a flight.
Sorry SAS but please wake up, drunken pilots are a security risk. With this attitude it is hardly surprising SAS losses money year after year after year and well run companies are making ever increasing profits. Ryan air -which now is transporting 70-80 million more passengers a year now than SAS. Norwegian has placed huge orders to increase its fleet. Both companies do view drunken pilots as a security risk.
SAS get rid of drunken pilots and staff who don´t view them as a security risk and wake up.
But their pilots apparently drink as much as they want!
It is not a surprise that SAS loses money then.
AF served the passengers dinner with wine.
SAS was charging for water.
SAS may think it a personal issue for the pilot. It would be an even more personal issue for the families of the people he killed when he stuffed it up !
I normally would not call for someone to lose their jobs without knowing the precise circumstances, but this person was in a position of responsibility for possibly a couple of hundred peoples lives. Should they ever let someone like that fly again ?