Local TV last night said they'll lose their jobs with America West, have their FAA licenses revoked and they face Florida state felony charges of operating an aircraft while intoxicated (Florida has a statute regarding this). They spent the day and night in jail yesterday. Jose Prize In a message dated 7/2/2002 8:28:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jmgammon@sympatico.ca writes: > Subj:Re: come on, get it right, damnit! > Date:7/2/2002 8:28:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:jmgammon@sympatico.ca";>jmgammon@sympatico.ca</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU";>AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU";>AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU</A> > Sent from the Internet > > The aviation rule is "no alcohol in your system and a minimun of 8 hours > bottle to throttle". The limit of 0.08 is for driving CARS in Canada at > least. It's likely to cause loss of your ticket if you're flying with that > amount in your system. > > Mike Gammon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Newbold" <pnewbold@san.rr.com> > To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:40 AM > Subject: Re: come on, get it right, damnit! > > > Dave, > > > Is .08 the limit for flying an aircraft full of passengers? Sounds high > to me. What are the FAA rules for drinking before flying? > I don't ride in a car when the driver has been drinking and I'm damn > sure not going to get in an airplane with a drinking pilot whether his > breath > is .08 or .01. > > > > Greg > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of > > David Ross > > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:40 PM > > To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > > Subject: come on, get it right, damnit! > > > > > > Okay, now I've heard the America West pilots that were supposedly drunk = > > has being the pilots for both Southwest and American! > > > > BTW, I wonder if they really were drunk. Heard they were at .08 (right = > > at the limit); wonder if the "security" people were just trying to get = > > back at them for some reason. > > > > David Ross > > http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/