Easyjet pilot flies high
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Easyjet pilot flies high
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A French Easyjet pilot sentenced to one year suspended sentence for flying while being under the influence of.... ecstasy (and a lifetime ban from the profession).
To be honest I think he gets off lightly.
A French Easyjet pilot sentenced to one year suspended sentence for flying while being under the influence of.... ecstasy (and a lifetime ban from the profession).
To be honest I think he gets off lightly.
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Google search for- easyjet pilot guilty ecstasy - finds reports of the event.
The Google translation indicates longer term involvement. Very sad for all.
The 49-year-old man "with impeccable service," ( father of three children) said, had taken ecstasy the day before a flight and had felt badly in control of the aircraft.
The Google translation indicates longer term involvement. Very sad for all.
The 49-year-old man "with impeccable service," ( father of three children) said, had taken ecstasy the day before a flight and had felt badly in control of the aircraft.
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Is it really up to the courts to impose a life-time ban? Such punishment is a disincentive to having him become clean.
Aviation regulators are better able to determine if an individual is safe to fly. Imposing a (self-funded) requirement for regular blood tests, for example, would serve equally well to keep passengers safe.
I'm not saying punishment is not appropriate, it is. But the objective should be to change behaviour.
Aviation regulators are better able to determine if an individual is safe to fly. Imposing a (self-funded) requirement for regular blood tests, for example, would serve equally well to keep passengers safe.
I'm not saying punishment is not appropriate, it is. But the objective should be to change behaviour.
I don't think so and I thought most of the stress was generated by a small percentage of crewmembers who were just the sort you meet anywhere who have an innate talent for making life difficult.
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Does a court have that power? Is it not the local CAA who controls the issue of licences? The court could recommend, but can they remove, permanently. Hell, sporting culprits only get 3 years ban, and then they are back on the gravy train. This guy has a family to feed. Would a car driver, after a crash, be banned for life? This guy didn't crash or harm anybody. He's being hung drawn & quartered for a potential smash up. Fair enough he's whipped and flogged and sent to the clinic; but life?
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Does a court have that power? Is it not the local CAA who controls the issue of licences? The court could recommend, but can they remove, permanently. Hell, sporting culprits only get 3 years ban, and then they are back on the gravy train. This guy has a family to feed. Would a car driver, after a crash, be banned for life? This guy didn't crash or harm anybody. He's being hung drawn & quartered for a potential smash up. Fair enough he's whipped and flogged and sent to the clinic; but life?
If you believe he is being hung drawn and quartered for 'a potential smash up' then I hope you are one of the people who sit in the back of the plane and not the front.
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AFAIK the court did not revoke his licence, they banned him from exercising his profession (i.e. working as a commercial pilot). Slight difference. Under French law you can be banned from working in whatever job you were working as a complementary sentence to a criminal conviction.
I have to say that I think that the Court was right. We have all suffered a vast range of various types of stress in the profession and, generally, have coped! The suggestion that there was an involvement in a chain does not sit well, I am afraid. He is (was) a professional pilot!!