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CloudHound
The information available to date indicates he has not been charged with any offence and is "under investigation". There is no mention of bail.
So innocent until proved... etc.
Yep, and as North Carolina lawyer Larry L. Archie, Esq. famously advertises 'Just because you did it doesn't mean you are guilty.'
An American Airlines FO showed up drunk at Manchester a few years ago and was arrested. He got a jury trial and got some of his buddies from the Ohio Air Guard to come testify in their shiny blue uniforms about his character.
One of the character witnesses was a brigadier who himself had recently had an unusual single vehicle mishap leaving the O-club late one night according to a colleague from the unit who knew all the players.
Anyway, the jury at the Minshul Street Crown Court bought the story that the American pilot drank the Bombay Sapphire (some reports called it whisky) in his sleep and he was going to the airport in his airline uniform to inform the captain that he was unfit for duty.
Cleared: The pilot who claimed he got drunk in his sleep
by JAMES TOZER
Last updated at 22:31 21 March 2007
An airline pilot who turned up for duty on a transatlantic flight nearly six-and-a-half times the alcohol limit was cleared - after claiming he had been drinking in his sleep.
James Yates, 47, had been on a six-hour drinking session the evening before and was stopped at an airport security point looking dishevelled and unsteady on his feet, it was claimed.
But a jury acquitted the first officer of attempting to board the cockpit of the American Airlines Boeing 767 which had been due to take 181 passengers from Manchester to Chicago.
During the case, Yates, an American, had suggested he may have drunk a third of a bottle of whisky in his sleep after going to bed.
He denied he had been trying to get on the plane, insisting his intention was to find the captain and explain that he was not in a fit state to fly.
Cleared: The pilot who claimed he got drunk in his sleep | Daily Mail Online