EasyJet pilot was five times over legal alcohol limit
Andrew Clark, transport correspondent
Wednesday January 12, 2005
The Guardian
An easyJet pilot is facing the sack for being more than five times the legal alcohol limit when she arrived to take charge of a flight packed with 120 passengers at Berlin's Schönefeld airport.
The captain, who was one of the low-cost airline's few female pilots, aroused the suspicion of colleagues when she turned up for flight EZY3455 to the Swiss city of Basle at 6.45am on Saturday.
German authorities carried out a breath test and found that she had 106mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. This is more than five times the legal limit in Britain of 20mg for pilots which was introduced by the government last year.
