This would be an interesting CVR...

[spoolinup22]

http://www.aviationtoday.com/the-ch...ed-in-An-28-Plane-Crash-Were-Drunk_77521.html

Cue the "Meanwhile in Soviet Russia..."

 

[///AMG]

Didn't Yuri Gagarin die while drunk flying a MIG-21 or something?

 

[Pilotforhire587]

2.03..... How was he still alive?

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

In Soviet Russia Vodka drink you.

 

[etflies]

Isn't 2% BAC the legal minimum to do anything in Russia?

 

[pullup]

2.03..... How was he still alive?

I don't think their system is like ours, it says 2.03% is average intoxication so that would be about .08 in our system.

 

[popaviator]

I wonder what kind of drinking games they played while en-route. Maybe every time you step on another pilots radio call you have to take a shot of vodka.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

Didn't Yuri Gagarin die while drunk flying a MIG-21 or something?

Yuri died in a MiG-15, in either a spin due to bird strike/maneuvering, wake turbulence due to an extremely close passing SU-15 (which is Leonov's theory), or due to hypoxia. Depends on who you believe.

 

[Skåning]

2.03..... How was he still alive?

They use a different system over there. Not .08 etc

 

[Boris Badenov]

Yuri died in a MiG-15, in either a spin due to bird strike/maneuvering, wake turbulence due to an extremely close passing SU-15 (which is Leonov's theory), or due to hypoxia. Depends on who you believe.

My understanding is that the "accepted story", anyway, is that they realized the aircraft wasn't pressurized, nosed over, and either compressed into the ground or blacked out trying to pull out of the dive. I believe the "drunk" stories have been discarded. Although: In Soviet Russia, The Official Story Writes You!

 

[Pilotforhire587]

They use a different system over there. Not .08 etc

ok, do you know what their system is based on?

 

[Autothrust Blue]

ok, do you know what their system is based on?

Russia is zero tolerance for DUI/DWI. (Wait, Russia has better laws than the United States on the subject? Ironic.)

That said, you can read about BAC measurements here. Could be percent content by mass instead of by volume...but I'm not a doctor.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

My understanding is that the "accepted story", anyway, is that they realized the aircraft wasn't pressurized, nosed over, and either compressed into the ground or blacked out trying to pull out of the dive. I believe the "drunk" stories have been discarded. Although: In Soviet Russia, The Official Story Writes You!

I don't know, I tend to believe *gasp* the KGB conclusion more than others, which is the spin due to either birdstrike or maneuvering to avoid an aircraft, compounded by lack of current altimeter setting from ATC.

 

[amjon]

2.03..... How was he still alive?

They said 2.03% which would be .0203 if you change it from percent, which is what we would say.