Crew investigated after Delta (Pinnacle) flight to MSP is canceled

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Crew investigated after Delta flight to MSP is canceled
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
by Ed Stych, Web Producer Date: Monday, February 20, 2012, 8:14am CST

A Delta Air Lines Inc. flight scheduled to fly from Grand Forks, N.D., to the Twin Cities was canceled Sunday and a crew member is being investigated. The Grand Forks Herald reports that Delta Flight 3743 was operated by Pinnacle Airlines Corp. , which flies smaller jets connecting Delta (NYSE: DAL) flights from smaller regional airports to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The 50-passenger CRJ 200 jet had been scheduled to leave Grand Forks at 1:07 p.m. Joe Williams, a spokesman for Pinnacle (NASDAQ: PNCL), told the Grand Forks newspaper he could not “confirm or comment on” allegations a flight attendant was intoxicated. Williams said the incident was being investigated. >Click here to learn more about the incident and Pinnacle's alcohol regulations. See Comments
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A Delta Airlines flight on a 50-passenger Pinnacle CRJ 200 jet scheduled to leave Grand Forks Sunday afternoon was cancelled and Pinnacle is investigating allegations involving an employee, said a spokesman for Pinnacle Airlines.

Delta officials referred Herald questions about the flight Sunday to Joe Williams, a spokesman for Pinnacle, which flies smaller jets connecting Delta flights from smaller regional airports, including Fargo, Grand Forks and Thief River Falls, with the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.

Williams, speaking Sunday from Memphis, said he could not “confirm or comment on” allegations that a flight attendant for Delta Flight 3743, scheduled to leave Grand Forks at 1:07 p.m. Sunday, was intoxicated.

“What I can tell you is our regulations governing consumption of alcohol by flight crews are stricter than FAA regulations, which require crews to be alcohol-free eight hours before flight,” Williams said. “And we require (flight crews to be alcohol-free) 12 hours before flight.”

The 50-passenger jet has a crew of three: pilot, co-pilot and flight attendant, he said.

Delta Flight 3743 was cancelled, which means it never left the ground in Grand Forks, Williams said.

“The safety of our passengers and flight crew is the first priority and we expect 100 percent compliance at all times,” Williams said, emphasizing again he could not confirm or comment on specific allegations about this incident until a “thorough investigation” is complete.

In any such investigation, any employee involved “would be off-duty pending the outcome,” Williams said.

When a flight is cancelled, “passengers are accommodated on the very next flight,” he said.

Delta had regularly scheduled flights at 3:05 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday which departed Grand Forks for Minneapolis, according to the airline’s website.
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I say we're doing better. The last time an alcohol related incident got out, it involved a pilot and a flight attendant. So we get the pilots under control... now we just need to worry about the flight attendants.

At least this time it didn't involve flip flops and an arrest of the crew members. :D
 
syntrikz said:
I disagree. Any flight crew member under the influence is not good. Gotta control the drinking. It's not worth it...
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Not saying it's a good thing at all. I think it's a bit rediculous showing up to work still intoxicated. But if I had to choose between a drunk flight attendant or pilot, you can be damn sure I'd pick the FA.
 
Just a little sideline here, but you can be impaired and not even realize you are.

Be careful folks!
 
Doug Taylor said:
Failed logic.

Zombies do not evolve.

Robots evolve, quickly. They will fight you, learn your battle technique, Wikipedia alternative methods and will whip your lily ass eventually.
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Yeah but you can buy insurance, through old glory, to help ease your concern over robots.
 
Usually that is just a turn. So she would have to have been schloppy on the way up if the situation is as described by the report. Doesn't make it any better, but I doubt a FA would have been tanked and made it through atleast 2 legs before getting caught. I wonder if this isn't an illness that some one is blowing out of proportion?
 
While any intoxicated crew member is bad, I have to admit, being from Grand Forks I can understand the compulsion to not remember where you are. That being said, the night before people, not the morning of. Most CFI's at UND Aerospace can give you pointers on how to successfully attempt 12 hours bottle to throttle in Grand Forks.

Now if you are to fail, leave yourself a note that you agreed to call in sick and not show up at the airport. As now I can think of intoxicated flights as NWA from Fargo to MSP, and Pinncale GFK to MSP (cancelled).
 
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