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Old 6th Apr 2007, 11:36
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AlexL
 
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Alchohol testing for pilots? I think not.
Lets get this into perspective guys.
Every year in the UK alone over 3000 people are killed on the roads, countless more given permanent life changing disabilities.
Depending on whose figures you believe between 1 in 5 and 1 in 3 of these are caused by alchohol. thats 500 to 1000 people killed on UK roads, every year, due to alchohol.
In 2005 in total, throughout the whole world, there were 790 fatalites on airlines, none of which were contributed to alchohol.
Why are people trying to invent a problem that doesn't exist?
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