Drunk Pilot Pulled From Plane Before Take Off

**radio667** · 09-16-2010, 05:13 AM

from wftv.com ........... AMSTERDAM -- Dutch police say they have arrested and fined an intoxicated American pilot who was preparing to take off with a passenger jet.

The National Police Corps has not identified the pilot or his airline, but says he is a 52-year-old captain from Woodbury, N.J. He does not fly for a Dutch airline, according to a police statement published Tuesday.

Police say they arrested the man in the cockpit of his plane after an anonymous tip. A breath test found he had a blood alcohol content of 0.023 percent - a hair above the legal limit in the Netherlands.

The pilot was fined euro700 ($900) and released, the statement said. The flight was canceled.

09-16-2010, 05:13 AM	#1
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,769 Downloads: 2	Drunk Pilot Pulled From Plane Before Take Off from wftv.com ........... AMSTERDAM -- Dutch police say they have arrested and fined an intoxicated American pilot who was preparing to take off with a passenger jet. The National Police Corps has not identified the pilot or his airline, but says he is a 52-year-old captain from Woodbury, N.J. He does not fly for a Dutch airline, according to a police statement published Tuesday. Police say they arrested the man in the cockpit of his plane after an anonymous tip. A breath test found he had a blood alcohol content of 0.023 percent - a hair above the legal limit in the Netherlands. The pilot was fined euro700 ($900) and released, the statement said. The flight was canceled. Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

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