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

Delta Flight 3743 was cancelled, which means it never left the ground in Grand Forks, Williams said.
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ctab5060X said:
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
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Flip flops are required equipment for Harrisburg overnights!
 
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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Depends on the kind of zombies you get...the normal shamblers or the fast as hell Romero zombies. In either case, you don't need to be faster than them, just faster than your buddy.

Richman
 
Holy Crap She was Freakin Hammered...... 0.186 BAC

A flight attendant, whose recent removal from a Delta commuter jet scheduled to fly from Grand Forks to the Twin Cities forced the flight's cancellation, was so drunk that she repeatedly failed to recite the alphabet on command and could not spell her own name, according to police.

A preliminary breath test given by police Sunday, the day that the flight was scrubbed, showed that Mary Jean Bongers, 51, of Coon Rapids, had a blood-alcohol content of 0.186, more than twice the legal limit for driving. Despite the result, according to a police report, Bongers denied having been drinking.

Delta Connection Flight 3743, operated by Pinnacle Airlines, was scheduled to depart shortly after 1 p.m.

The flight attendant was "relieved of duty [without pay] pending further investigation" by the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration, said Pinnacle spokesman Joe Williams. He declined to comment on the specifics released by police, who did not arrest Bongers.
Telephone and Facebook messages were left for Bongers seeking comment about the police account.

According to the police report:
A nurse practitioner on a Pinnacle flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Grand Forks notified the pilots that the flight attendant was intoxicated. A police officer arrived at the plane and met with Bongers.

Bongers had difficulty speaking but denied having been drinking even though she was swaying while standing.

The officer could smell "a moderate odor" of alcohol on Bongers' breath. She failed numerous field sobriety tests. When asked to spell her name, she left two letters our of her last name and was mumbling and slurring.

During her alphabet tests, she did fine the first time until about halfway in. During her third futile try at the test, she started singing the letters before the officer could complete the instructions.

At one point, she wanted to "speak off the record" with a second officer on the case and volunteered that she had eight children.

An officer's inspection of the plane turned up three empty 50-milliliter (1.7-ounce) bottles of vodka in a trash bin. Flight records showed no alcohol being served on that incoming flight.
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I knew the flight attendant very well. She is a hardcore drunkie.

She has been working for Pinnacles for years. I am sure she is going to get sacked! There goes her pension down to the drain. :cry:
 
And no one at Pinnacle thought to help her or get her in an assistance program? Nice co-workers ya got there.
 
The article got one major fact wrong... and if it hadn't been for some off duty employees very few if any of the pax would have left gfk that day due to a severe under staffing issue of ground personnel... people, including pax, notice when there aren't enough gate agents/rampers on hand to rebook people. Way to go Delta!
 
Avalon781ML said:
The article got one major fact wrong... and if it hadn't been for some off duty employees very few if any of the pax would have left gfk that day due to a severe under staffing issue of ground personnel... people, including pax, notice when there aren't enough gate agents/rampers on hand to rebook people. Way to go Delta!
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Delta handles Pinnacle staffing?
 
Yeah, PCL's staffing levels aren't anything to do with DL.

That being said, holy CRAP! I mean, there are times I thought I could use a drink while I was a F/A, but I would never dream of actually trying to work while drinking/drunk. No way!
 
MQAAord said:
Yeah, PCL's staffing levels aren't anything to do with DL.

That being said, holy CRAP! I mean, there are times I thought I could use a drink while I was a F/A, but I would never dream of actually trying to work while drinking/drunk. No way!
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Although there are some days when a cocktail, on duty, would come in mightily handy.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Delta handles Pinnacle staffing?
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No... RES does the ground handling in GFK and since RES is wholly owned by Delta by de facto they are responsible for RES's tight budget constraints which limits the personnel staffed for every arrival and departure. 3 people is all that is allowed unless there will be more than 1 airframe on the ground at a time.
 
Sooooooo, more indirectly you mean.

If there's $20 for pizza, that's one X-Large combination from the local joint down the street. Or what, five little Casears 1-topping pizza-pizza's? :)
 
Doug Taylor said:
Sooooooo, more indirectly you mean.

If there's $20 for pizza, that's one X-Large combination from the local joint down the street. Or what, five little Casears 1-topping pizza-pizza's? :)
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That may be but it is turning into a system wide issue... it affects the people who buy tickets and thus the paychecks that many people on this website recieve in turn... furthermore for those of us flying for the regionals it is difficult if not impossible to turn an aircraft in the specified time allotted by mainline companies these days with reduced staffing which directly affect my companies numbers and puts us at risk of losing contracts yadda yadda yadda.... and I don't know about AZ but in TX a Little Casears 1 topping pizza is more than 5 bucks (tax included)... and just so we are clear I would say the exact same thing if it had been United, Airways, American, etc.
 
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