Airman 56 said,
'An EasyJet pilot is facing the sack for being more than five times the legal alcohol limit when she arrived to take charge of a flight packed with 120 passengers at Berlin's Schönefeld airport.
The captain, who was one of the low-cost airline's few female pilots, aroused the suspicion of colleagues when she turned up for flight EZY3455 to the Swiss city of Basle at 6.45am on Saturday.'
Dont get me wrong, I am not saying this is unique to DCR nor to Ukranian crews, of course it happens all over the world, but as your example points out, when crews in Europe or the USA turn up to work drunk, they are found out and stopped, however, the point I believe V1 to be making is backed up by this example, there is absouletly no regulatory body in place to stop this kind of thing happening in the field, read DRC.
Also, the point was about the unacceptably high numbers of crashes and loss of life within the DRC and not Europe.
Last edited by south coast; 8th September 2008 at 08:36.