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A Japan Airways flight from Dallas to Tokyo was cancelled final week after its captain acquired drunk at a resort bar in an incident involving the police.
The 157 passengers of the flight had been later transferred to an American Airways flight.
The unnamed 49-year-old captain began ingesting as he dined with fellow crew members at a restaurant after touchdown his flight from Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Monday, the airline mentioned. He continued partying in a lounge of his resort and later his room, regardless of employees warning him towards disruptive behaviour.
At spherical 2am on Tuesday, resort employees known as police because the pilot continued to make noise and disturb different visitors.
Although the pilot didn’t violate Japan Airways’ pointers towards ingesting inside 12 hours of boarding, he was prohibited from flying as a precautionary measure.
The airline mentioned it cancelled the flight to examine the bodily and psychological situation of the captain and wanted time to rearrange for his substitute, reported Japan Occasions.
The airline subsequently apologised to passengers for the inconvenience precipitated to them by the pilot’s “inappropriate behaviour”.
In March, a Delta Airways pilot was sentenced to 10 months in jail after he reported drunk to responsibility at Scotland’s Edinburgh airport.
The American pilot, Lawrence Russell Jr, 63, was scheduled to fly to New York’s JFK airport on 16 June 2023. He was barred from flying after a check discovered his blood alcohol exceeded the authorized restrict and authorities discovered two bottles of Jägermeister liqueur in his bag.
