A headline which uses the words "drunken pilot" can even be used mostly for general aviation guys who fly their own/rented small planes, and this happens when the newspaper editor needs to inflate the total number of pilots, to give one the impression, unless one reads carefully, that there are many such cases among commercial airline pilots . I'm only aware of one former newspaper aviation reporter who is a licensed pilot-and he quit and became a cropduster! He suffered a nasty 'tangle' by a farmer's field and was quite lucky to have survived a crash. Here's to Grumman or whichever builder
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Saskatoon: In a city in southwestern Canada, not long ago a pub employee saw an airline crew drinking. The person either believed that the crew was to soon be on duty, or simply wanted to embarass/harass them, and has a strong grudge against flightcrews (?). He or she called either their company or a Real Authority (the kind which flies a briefcase full of paper). Anyway, they were many hours from scheduled duty and the other crewmembers at their company were advised to avoid the popular pub. Maybe the possible grudge was based on current politics?