Devils Advocate
Interesting approach, no-one has been killed, so we dont need to change anything?
Have a look at
http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/97835.htm for a survey of airline alcohol policies.
http://www.asams.org/guidelines/Comp...ol%20Abuse.htm states alcohol is involved in 15% of
general aviation accidents
http://www.health20-20.org/how_high.htm for info on a crash with a pilot who had high levels of cocaine in his system, and for "Yet denial of the problem of alcohol's effect on aviation safety has been a continuous problem for those seeking to remedy the problem."
http://www.nzdf.org.nz/update/messages/2413.htm for a starter on info on the problems in New Zealand.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/...ot-alcohol.htm for info on a China Airlines pilot caught out by screeners who smelt alcohol on his breath.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/977237.stm for info on British Airways supposedly intoducing drug and alcohol testing in 2001.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...iving/s1p1.htm for info on drug testing program in the US.
I dont have a beef with BA, just if they are going to announce they do something, they should do! They got enough bad publicity recently, it even made my small state newspaper, if they had kept to their 2000 pronouncement of testing in 2001, it may not have occurred.
I assume you think that there is no problem? What do you have to fear from drug and alcohol testing?