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Old 2nd Nov 2018, 11:03
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Originally Posted by Pinkman
If JAL routinely breathalyse and he passed, and then blew that massive score, its consistent with having a swig of duty free after the test e.g. in the loo but before boarding the crew bus/aircraft. It would explain the massively high result as typically BAC breath readings are falsely high for the first 20 minutes or so then settle down.
That was my immediate assumption too, it explains both the passed test as well as the high reading.
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