I would have thought a breathalyser tube to blow into at the Crew security checkpoint apart from being a low cost and quick addition to security would save pilots from themselves and save not just the passenger lives but the pilots career.
Its win win all round.
Car drivers take the risk or believe they are under the limit when they are over or think that last nights one drink too much is well out of their system when its not.
Its another day and yesterday was yesterday so I am ok.
The pressure on pilots to turn up for the flight knowing there are 200 PAX waiting to board after a night of doing something stupid. We are human too
Sometimes people need protecting from themselves and knowing there is a compulsory 40 second breath test would have meant that pilot would have called in sick i bet he regrets it now with his career in shreds?
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