View Poll Results: Should airline pilots be tested for alcohol before every flight?
I am a professional pilot and I say YES
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79
7.60%
I am a professional pilot and I say NO
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616
59.29%
I am NOT a professional pilot and I say YES
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64
6.16%
I am NOT a professional pilot and I say NO
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240
23.10%
I have no opinion or am happy with the status quo
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40
3.85%
Voters: 1039. This poll is closed
VS A340 pilot breathalysed at LHR: WRONGLY ACCUSED
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"Statiscally flying, or operating, undetr the influence is not."
That's the problem of typing before I go down the pub
What I meant was, that we do have a big problem with drink driving causing LOTS of fatalities and injuries, each year.
I fully accept that the potential for a catastrophic alcohol induced accident is there, but statistically it is not, at the moment, a problem. Long may it remain so.
However people shooting off at the lip, seemingly happy to jump on to a bandwagon of "must be guilty", arrest without proof, and media hysteria with trial by internet do not help.
That's the problem of typing before I go down the pub
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What I meant was, that we do have a big problem with drink driving causing LOTS of fatalities and injuries, each year.
I fully accept that the potential for a catastrophic alcohol induced accident is there, but statistically it is not, at the moment, a problem. Long may it remain so.
However people shooting off at the lip, seemingly happy to jump on to a bandwagon of "must be guilty", arrest without proof, and media hysteria with trial by internet do not help.
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