Drunk Cabin Crew delay flight - arrested?!?
 

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Anyone know anything about this flight….somewhere in Scandinavia?!?

AirSerbia OSL - BEG July 10th.

3 Cabin crew onboard, 1 arrested with a blood alcohol level of 1.0

Pax numbers reduced and flight departed with 2 cabin crew operating.

For info, because I hadn't a clue what 1.0 means and I doubt many others do either;

BAC level 1.0‰ BAC
Standard alcoholic drinks Five
Typical general effects Clear deterioration of reaction time and control, slurred speech, poor coordination, slowed thinking

I think the UK limit for driving a car would be 0.8% on that scale.

I think you are out by a factor of 10 here - 0.08%

So having a BAC of 1.0% is actually "quite merry" if my maths are right...

It's 50 times the Norwegian limit (0.02%) for aircrew.

Sorry yes. I was thinking the limit was 80mg / litre rather than per 100ml.

But I think 1.0 BAC is 1 per 1000, ie 0.1%. 0.4% is considered fatal

No, there is confusion here regarding the decimal point. The number of drinks and the effects you mention would be associated with a BAC of .1%, not 1%. With a BAC of 1% most people are comatose.

Ah, not comatose - dead. I doubt even a hard core alcoholic would survive a 1.0% blood alcohol content.

tdr, I agree. I originally intended to write "dead", then found many cases (via google) wherein people have survived with a BAC well over 1%. But I'm sure you're correct for most cases. Maybe a good way to describe the effects of 1% BAC would be "at best comatose, very likely dead". In any case, the above mentioned crew member was most likely measured as ".1%" in which case the person was clearly intoxicated.

BAC (blood alcohol content/concentration) is a dimensionless quantity, usually expressed as a ratio or percentage.

So while a BAC of 1 in 1000 (i.e. 0.1%) makes sense, simply quoting BAC = 1.0 is meaningless.

many preceding posters have failed to pay close attention to the symbol after the 1.0 in the above-quoted post. It is a per mille symbol, not a percent symbol, where mille means thousand.

1.0‰ blood alcohol is 0.1% blood alcohol.

carry on…