Arrested pilot overcome rate of alcohol when he went off ¿?
A United Airlines pilot has been charged after giving positive a breathalyzer test he was about to take off from Heathrow airport in London to Chicago, on an airplane traveling at 124 passengers and eleven crew members, as reported authorities. Metropolitan Police on Monday raided the Boeing 767 to stop the driver, identified as Vermont Washington Erwin, 51 years old and born in the U.S. city of Lakewood in the state of Colorado. your flight's departure was "imminent" and, after appropriate medical tests, was arrested. Authorities have filed charges against Vermont, who must appear in court the next day 20.
redistributed Airline passengers on other flights, although at the time did not explain why. A United Airlines spokeswoman said the British newspaper The Guardian that security is the "highest priority" of the company and, for this reason, "the pilot has been arrested temporarily suspended from employment, at least until the investigation is concluded."
withdraw the license of drivers who passed along the airport to go chatting ¿?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday withdrew the license of flight for two pilots of Northwest Airlines that deep in conversation on the agenda, spent 230 kilometers airport on their way .
None of the three flight attendants and 144 passengers were injured in the incident, which took place on October 21, but still the FAA imposed the sanction because the pilots violated numerous rules with his behavior.
The agency said in a statement that Captain Timothy Cheney and co-pilot Richard Cole "did not follow air traffic control instructions and acted careless and reckless.""You operated the (flight) Northwest 188, an irresponsible manner that endangered life and property of others," the FAA said. The
pilots said they were distracted by a conversation and realized that they had reached Minneapolis (Minnesota), the destination of your flight, which had left San Diego (California).
Cole used his personal computer to show Cheney's new computer system to shift the agenda flight introduced by the airline, Northwest Airlines, they said.The incident occurred when the device was about 12,000 meters in height and in the absence of orders, the ship continued to fly straight past the airport.
Meanwhile, the control tower of Minneapolis and airline officials were trying to contact them by radio and through text messages , according to the FAA.
The pilots were so immersed in their conversation did not realize what happened until a crew member contacted them by telephone system when he saw that the aircraft was descending.
The spacecraft landed safely an hour and five minutes later than planned .
Pilots have 10 days to appeal the withdrawal of its license, the statement said.
Passengers mutiny on a plane because the pilot seemed to be drunk ¿?
Passengers Aeroflot flight 315 Moscow-New York panicked when they heard the pilot to welcome the plane. Alexander
Cheplevsky, the pilot, began his speech in Russian tongue-tied. Passengers suspected that something strange was happening and started talking about English realized that he was drunk. Then the passage rebelled.
The hostess, tells the newspaper The Times , ignored the complaints of passengers and even threatened to throw them the Boeing 767 if they did not "Making trouble." As the passage
riot, Aeroflot personnel entered the plane to try to calm the 300 travelers .
A flight almost automatic
One of the managers came to call for calm to the passage explaining that not matter that the pilot was drunk , because the plane was practically automatic.
driver initially refused to leave the cabin to show the passage was not drunk. When he finally agreed some passengers saw him that was barely standing and that his eyes were red , told the press.
"No creo que haya nadie en Rusia que no sepa como averiguar si alguien está borracho" , dijo una de las pasajeras al diario Moscow Times ."Al principio nos miraba como si estuviésemos locos. Después se quedó ahí parado y explicó que había en la nave otros tres pilotos y que él nos prometía que no tocaría los mandos ".
El piloto pudo sufrir un infarto menor
En el pasaje iba una conocida periodista de la televisión rusa y ella exigió que Aeroflot reemplazase a toda la tripulación. Finalmente la compañía accedió y el vuelo salió, direccióna Nueva York, three hours late.
journalist explained that the pilot was unable to perform their jobs . "But if it took three attempts to say 'the duration of the flight," he said.
A spokesman for Aeroflot said the pilot tests conducted did not reveal presence of alcohol in blood and blamed the psychosis of the passage of the change in the crew. Hours after the company acknowledged that perhaps the pilot had suffered a minor heart attack while preparing for the flight.The pilot told the press that held the night before his 58th birthday, but insisted he had not drunk alcohol.
