Assuming this news report is right:
Prosecutors said John Cronly-Dillon was nearly seven times over the legal limit for alcohol when he attempted to check in to command a flight to Dubai on Sept. 13
Ruserious, do you consider this "somehow or other a very human mistake"? For a pilot? A train or bus driver? A sealiner skipper? For you as a car driver if you are taking home your family or your friends after a night out or any other example involving few or many lives? I don't think so. I'm sorry but I cannot agree.
We all, in aviation, make mistakes, but... there are irrelevant ones and those of great importance or inpact. I don't need to detail them here. All he had to do was to report sick, period! Though wrong because he shouldn't have done it, and assuming he was going through some bad patch of his life, it would have been more professional to stay in the hotel room.
Good night! Working day ahead.