SAS pilot caught drunk last sunday
 

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SAS pilot caught drunk last sunday. His skipper phoned base night before the morning flight LHR-OSL and the drunk pilot was taken off duty. "A personal tragedy is behind this incident", says SAS spokesperson.

The pilot was escorted home by collegues on another flight and is in a depressed and bad condition.

"Alcoholism is something that is present in our society, and there is no reson to believe that is not represented among our 2.000 pilots. However, due to our routines we can spot alcoholism at a much earlier stage than in the society in general. I can´t recall this kind of incident has ever happened in SAS before".

What's your point, PRD?
Couldn`t find a fourth example?

I can certainly recall this happening before about 30 years ago in person when I was sitting in the hotel bar having the pilots next to me pretty much wasted.

However, in those days Pilots "didn't drink" lol

My point?
 

My point is to deliver some food for thought and get some intelligent reflections. You still owe me one.

My colleague and I had had a pretty long day flying around the Central Pacific, (B737), when we finally made it to the hotel bar in Port Villa.
Lovely bar, beautiful view, full of tourists. As we turned from the bar a European/Antipodean male asked were we part of his group?, "No, we are here to fly a charter tomorrow to one of the Islands", Oh said he, "Not XXXX I hope", "well yes," said We, "why?", 'Why? well here you both are drinking", (out first cold beer after a hard day and at least fifteen hours to go before we flew again).

I tend not to believe the anacdotal stuff that passengers come up with, there is a lot to be said for choosing hotels for crew well away from passengers, if only to remove the opportunity for inebriated passengers to swear blind the crew were drunk in the bar.

Was he now? How was he caught drunk when he was off duty?

KBPsen
Skipper spotted him drunk in the bar evening before early departure. Much more than enough to violate SAS 0.2, eight hours before takeoff, limit.

Right, so what we have is an employee seen violating company rules concerning alcohol consumption and as a result was de-rostered.

Plus the usual speculation and tarted up headlines.

That´s right KBPsen ;)

And there are some questions to be raised that we don´t discuss often enough.

How relevant is this for you and me? What have we seen, how did we react, what can we do better when we see collegues balancing on thin lines? We know this is happening all the time.

Where does "cameraderi" stop and responability and rules take over?

How can we work informally with collegues in the danger zone to prevent personal tragedies, not to mention even bigger tragedies?

What can we do for the de-roasted ones, helping them to come back instead of falling into misery?

There are much more questions to be raised.