A Southwest Airways pilot was arrested shortly earlier than takeoff on Wednesday in Georgia after he allegedly confirmed as much as work intoxicated, police say.
New Hampshire resident David Allsop, 52, was arrested at Savannah/Hilton Head Worldwide Airport at round 7 a.m. on Wednesday, in response to the Chatham County Sheriff’s Workplace. He was charged with driving beneath the affect.
Allsop was apprehended simply earlier than Southwest Flight 3772, certain for Chicago, was about to go away Georgia. It departed shortly earlier than 11 a.m., practically 4 hours after it was scheduled to takeoff.
Southwest advised Fox Information Digital that it was wanting into the incident and that Allsop, whose LinkedIn profile states that he’s a pilot, has been “faraway from responsibility.”
“We’re conscious of a state of affairs involving an Worker on Flight 3772 this morning from Savannah,” the airline stated. “The worker has been faraway from responsibility.”
Southwest additionally famous that the flight’s passengers had been accommodated onto different flights whereas Flight 3772 remained grounded.
“Clients had been accommodated on different flights, and we apologize for the disruption to their journey plans,” a spokesperson stated. “There’s nothing extra necessary to Southwest than the protection of our staff and clients.”
It’s uncommon, however not remarkable, for a pilot to be arrested or apprehended for excessively consuming earlier than a flight. Final Might, Japan Airways grounded a flight from Dallas to Tokyo after it was found {that a} pilot drank excessively the evening earlier than.
Though the pilot didn’t violate the interior tips in opposition to consuming inside 12 hours of departure, Japan Airways canceled the flight with the intention to “assess the captain’s bodily and psychological well-being.”
Authorities are actively investigating the incident.
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