Originally Posted by
tdracer
Actually there was a 737 crash in (IIRC) Russia - I'm thinking roughly 20 years ago - where the autopsy found the PF to be drunk. Not impaired, drunk. It's been long enough I don't recall details (PPRuNe being what it is, I'm sure someone will be along to fill in) but there were no survivors.
I think it was this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_821
Wiki says "unspecified amount of alcohol in the captain's tissue" - I'm reasonably sure that the report I read quoted a number, and it was high enough to qualify as drunk driving in the US (at least 0.08%). However that report might have been considered confidential - the report was given to me by someone involved in the accident investigation - I was working something at the time that made it relevant so I had a legitimate 'need to know'.