"The captain had a blood alcohol of 0.54 and Monday afternoon fell verdict against him in Upper Romerike District Court."
"Other pilot, who had 1.35 parts per thousand, was sentenced to six months in prison."
There appears to be a little confusion within this thread about blood alcohol concentration figures. In Scandinavia it is normal to quote figures
"per mille", not "per cent", eg: in parts per thousand rather than parts per hundred.
There is also a small difference because
in most places that use %, such as Australia, we measure blood alcohol by mass of alcohol per volume blood, while in Scandinavia they measure blood alcohol by mass of alcohol per mass of blood.
Since blood has a relative density of about 1.06 (slightly denser than water), this makes an Australian 0.05% m/v driving limit equal to a Swedish 0.47 0/00 m/m.
0.54% blood alcohol is
likely though not certain to be
fatal.
0.54 per mille is almost 0.06%, and is just sufficienty over the legal limit to drive a car in my part of the world to thoroughly spoil your day, and well under the 0.08% limit to drive a car still in force in many places.
1.35 per mille, 1.35 parts per thousand or about 0.014% is well and truly sozzled, whereas 1.35% would be well and truly dead.