pilot jail time
This freaks me out a bit. Were they wrong? of course they were, but consider it for a moment. Have you ever settled your tab six hours before work? Most of us have, in fact I wonder how many pilots have. For most Americans 6 hours constitutes a nights sleep. Many of us have joked 'I'm prolly still drunk' the next day, but luckily there was no prison time.
Pilots should be held to a higher standard, and I do think these men were in the wrong, but I can't help thinking the punishment seems extreme. Fired? yeah, but prison?
Am I missing a key part of the story? did they drink again in the morning?
We can't seem to keep molesters behind bars, but there's room for pilots who drank too much the night before, and people who had pot.
This is the new worst post ever.
Pilots should be held to a higher standard, and I do think these men were in the wrong, but I can't help thinking the punishment seems extreme. Fired? yeah, but prison?
Am I missing a key part of the story? did they drink again in the morning?
We can't seem to keep molesters behind bars, but there's room for pilots who drank too much the night before, and people who had pot.
This is the new worst post ever.
posted by Robert_M at 9:18 AM
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Most pilots use the rule '12 hours from bottle to throttle'. There is a higher standard for anyone who takes OTHER people lives in their hands. Jail seems pretty extreme though. Just rip the license.
Remember, these guys actually showed up and got in the cockpit totally hammered. I mean completely hammered --- so bad that the gate crew smelled them reeking of alcohol and acting all beligerent. Six hours or not, these guys drank so much they were still completely wasted.
I had that same thought about jail time. And I hate to get all Nancy Grace. But also remember that these jerks just didn't show up to work drunk; they showed they were willing to take 160 peoples lives in their hands by getting into a plane and trying to fly it drunk. There was a high likelyhood that they were going to kill a lot of people. So yeah, they probably need to do some time.
Good points, further research reveals that one of the guys was on probation for an alcohol related offense already, so I guess it's a fit.
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