Airtran Pilot Had A Few Too Many Drinks
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titansox
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I don't think most people know they are one in the same. Also must blow to blow a .05 and be considered drunk. I don't drink much, but I don't think it takes much to blow .05. Not that I'm justifying his actions.
redwings191
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I could probably blow a .05 the morning after a decent night of drinking. Although it would be a morning in which I needed to get up and go flying. Again, not justifying his actions. Just sayin.
CirrusMonkey
No Real Usefulness
.05??? He'll have lawyers banging at his door, if they aren't already.....
AeroT
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The machine was flawed! It hadn't been calibrated the month prior! Hah. I'm sure they'll find some excuse.
CirrusMonkey
No Real Usefulness
Precisely! It's easy money.
Minuteman
Moⅾerator
Wow. It seems like only just the other day the DOJ approved the merger. How did I miss the corporate merger and the transition to a single certificate?
crazyjaydawg
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"No passengers were harmed as a result"
Phew I thought everyone gets a kick in the junk if your pilot is removed from a flight and you're forced to endure a 35 min delay.
Phew I thought everyone gets a kick in the junk if your pilot is removed from a flight and you're forced to endure a 35 min delay.
frog_flyer
FredFlyer
You "seem" to have problems with spelling...
Autothrust Blue
“If you jump on my shift, that’s just rude, man.”
When the crew of Northwest-now-a-part-of-Delta 188 overflew Minnie, media called it Northwest, not Delta.
The public looks at the side of the airplanes to figure out who it is, sir.
juan valdez
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I know you're being facetious but this happened up in DC not too long ago. Came to light that the department hadn't calibrated ANY of their breathalyzers in YEARS. There were thousands of DUIs over that time, betcha the city is having fun with that one.
MikeOH58
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I remember hearing a story on the news in the past few months about departments in DC AND Long Island that haven't calibrated machines in ages, which potentially will lead to hundreds of DUI charges being dismissed. Regardless if it turns out he was within legal limits, i'm sure airtan has a policy of .0 or some minescuel number to allow for mouth wash, etc or no drinks within say 12 hours. If the guy had his last drink 12 hours earlier, to still have a .05 means he was pretty plastered. The again, this is all speculation and means nothing =)
troopernflight
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They must have been using some outdated technology. We use datamaster's in SC and they run a self test before every breath sample and don't ever require calibration. If it fails the self test, it shuts itself down. A lot of times you do get people driving in the mid-morning and they kind of have that "had been up all night drinking odor" to them. It's different than the fresh drinking odor. A lot of times they'll blow a .08 or higher and act surprised since they had been asleep for 6 hours before getting behind the wheel.
Nick
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Depends on what you're talking about.
Plane goes off the end of a runway and it's Connection/Express/Link/etc. the mainline company that outsourced it will do anything to say it's not their's even though their brand and logo is painted on the entire airplane.
WalterSobchak
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I think I am most amazed that it only delayed the flight 35 mninutes? You can't even get pulled over pass sobriety tests and a breathalyzer in that amount of time. Good for Southwest...I mean AirTran.
Autothrust Blue
“If you jump on my shift, that’s just rude, man.”
Fair enough. I still hear the connection/link/express/etc. get referred to as mainline by non-discerning news outfits, but anyhow...carry on.
The *passenger* certainly sees the name on the side of the plane, and might notice "CONNECTION" scribbled in small type.