African Flying, drunk pilot in Uganda
A 2-pilot airplane from Chad landed in Entebbe 5 nights ago. The pilot, an Ukrainian national, had no license and was drunk! During taxi-in his tail collided with an A310 wingtip damaging both airplanes. The prop airplane lost about 5 inches of the vertical stabilizer. The A310 was full of United Nations peacekeepers. One of the passengers of the prop airplane said that the pilot even drank vodka during the flight and that the flight was terrible. This man instead of being took to jail was let go I assume after bribing some of the officers at the airport. VIVA AFRICA. These stupid and corrupted Ugandans are as criminals as the pilot they let go! Had this incident occur in Europe with Ugandans pilots, they would probably be in the electric chair by now--there is no dead penalty in Europe-- but being African and drunk and no license was enough for the Europeans to have reinstated the dead penalty. I am so sorry for those who have to work in Africa. Anything you hear about Africa is true, is sad and it will never change. And when I say Africa it is ALL Africa. A friend of mine flies a 737-8 for AMC Egypt. Well the pilots and cabin crew contracts -verbal only- allow them to smoke a cigarette per leg on flights to Europe. They usually consist of one domestic stop within Egypt, CGD and back to Cairo. The lounge? Well the cockpit. Africa is Africa period!