Delta pilot found drunk before transatlantic flight sentenced to 10 months prison
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A Delta Airlines pilot was sentenced to 10 months in prison for reporting for duty at Scotland’s Edinburgh Airport while drunk, according to a court statement.
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A Delta Airlines pilot was sentenced to 10 months in prison for reporting for duty at Scotland’s Edinburgh Airport while drunk, according to a court statement.
Former Delta Air Lines pilot Lawrence Russell was sentenced in Scotland to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to showing up to work intoxicated ahead of a scheduled flight to the U.S.
Lawrence B. Russell Jr., 63, pleaded guilty to having a blood-alcohol level more than two times the aviation limit, and a half-empty bottle of Jägermeister in his luggage, the authorities said.
Delta Airlines pilot Lawrence Russell, 63, has been sentenced to 10 months in a Scottish jail for showing up drunk and carrying a half-empty bottle of Jägermeister at Edinburgh Airport before a flight to New York City.
An American Delta Airlines pilot has been sentenced to 10 months in jail in Scotland after reporting for work intoxicated when he was scheduled to fly to New York last year.
The pilot was ordered to take a breath and blood test, which he both failed, after two bottles of alcohol were found in his bag, per the Judiciary of Scotland
