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Drunk JAL pilot arrested at London's Heathrow airport

Übermittelt vor 5 Jahren

A Japanese pilot who was arrested at Heathrow Airport for being drunk has admitted being more than nine times the legal alcohol limit. Katsutoshi Jitsukawa, 42, who works for Japan Airlines, was arrested on 28 October after failing a breath test. He was found to have 189mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood in his system - the legal limit for a pilot is 20mg. The first officer pleaded guilty to exceeding the alcohol limit at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Japanese broadcaster NHK… (www.bbc.com) Mehr...

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bbabis vor 5 Jahren 4

Kudos to the driver of the crew bus for saying something. He prevented a much more embarrassing situation for JAL.

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canuck44 vor 5 Jahren 4

Damn...this was obviously not his first rodeo. He was still vertical at 189 mg% a level which would put most of us into a stagger.

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scott8733 vor 5 Jahren 1

Even Irish caddies are shaking their heads in astonishment this guy was still vertical enough to answer the bell.

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Mike Mohle vor 5 Jahren 0

Damn Sake. That'll get ya!

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Iain Girling vor 5 Jahren 3

Whatever happened to “24 hours between bottles and throttles” ?

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James Simms vor 5 Jahren 3

Reminds me of this classic:

https://youtu.be/8XC3Hc-rAkk

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bbabis vor 5 Jahren 2

One of my favorites. ROTFL and nothing vulgar.

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Carl Smeraldi vor 5 Jahren 2

You are exactly correct my friend . I would buy this bus driver dinner for reporting this DRUNK CREW.

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Ken McIntyre vor 5 Jahren 1

...used to work for Japan Airlines...

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Torsten Hoff vor 5 Jahren 1

(Duplicate Squawk Submitted)

Japan Airlines pilot admits being 10 times over alcohol limit

A Japan Airlines pilot has admitted to failing a breath test shortly before he was due to fly from London Heathrow to Tokyo, the UK's Press Association reports.
Katsutoshi Jitsukawa, 42, had almost 10 times more than the legal permitted amount of alcohol in his bloodstream when he was arrested, the Metropolitan Police said. At Uxbridge Magistrates' Court Thursday, the pilot pleaded guilty to being over the alcohol limit.
Japan Airlines flight JL44 was due to take off just 50 minutes after tests showed that First Officer Jitsukawa had 189 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood in his body.
The legal limit for pilots is 20 mg, while drivers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are allowed as much as 80 mg.
He was caught after the driver of a crew bus smelled alcohol and called the police, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/01/uk/japanese-pilot-heathrow-drunk-scli-intl/index.html

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Torsten Hoff vor 5 Jahren 5

Thanks. My “duplicate” was submitted three hours before this squawk.

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peter tomlinson vor 5 Jahren 1

I am wondering how many times he got away without being caught .

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john kilcher vor 5 Jahren -1

Utter nonsense!

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Shenghao Han vor 5 Jahren -2

If he can just hold on to it until the plane takes off instead drowning his problem on land...
I wonder if the flight attendant will give pilots not on duty booze.

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Carl Smeraldi vor 5 Jahren -5

Excellent news put that crew behind bars rip off their stripes FAA NEEDS TO CHANGE THE RULE TO 24 hrs before showtime period.

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Ken McIntyre vor 5 Jahren 4

Huh? This happened in London.

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30west vor 5 Jahren 2

The airlines typically have more stringent rules on the time period from drinking until reporting for duty than that required by the regulatory body. My company (U.S. Part 121 carrier) has the period set at twelve hours. Up until the early 90's it was a twenty-four period, but was reduced to twelve hours at that time. It is normally in the Flight Operations Manual which is approved by the FAA. No negative impact or up-tick in occurrences in impared crewmwmbers reporting for duty happened.

Fellow pilots who detect a crewmember that appears to be intoxicated can either turn the offender into authorities or tell him that he can call in sick immediately and be removed from the trip, and then when back at domicle meet with the chief pilot to ask for treament for sustance abuse. If he is not willing, then choice A happens. ALPA, APA, etc. and the companies have great programs that treat pilots with that problem which allows them to return to duty after successful treatment and monitoring. It has a very high success rate in controlling the alcohol dependence of the treated pilot.

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btweston vor 5 Jahren 2

A tiger? In Africa?

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