Two United Airlines pilots who have been arrested for suspected intoxication before they were to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States will appear in a Scottish court Monday, police said.
The Police Service of Scotland said it arrested both pilots Saturday at Glasgow Airport and both men, aged 45 and 35, would be arraigned at a court in Paisley, a Glasgow suburb, to face charges connected to Britain’s transport safety laws.
United Airlines said Saturday’s flight from Glasgow to the U.S. city of Newark, New Jersey, was delayed for 10 hours while the airline sought replacement pilots.
“The two pilots have been removed from service and their flying duties,” United spokeswoman Erin Benson said. “We are cooperating with the authorities and will conduct our own investigation as well. The safety of our customers and crew is our highest priority.”
Saturday’s arrests come barely a month after two Canadian pilots of an Air Transat plane were arrested at Glasgow Airport and charged with trying to fly while intoxicated.
How dare these two men put all these people In harms way being intoxicated. Thank you Jesus that someone told or they knew by their behavior that something wasn’t right and they were removed before the plane took off. This is truly unacceptable and they have to put some type of measure in place when it is time for pilots to take off, they all must be checked out before they can fly.
A regular dem drink an fly… But chu plane can land by itself now dem free up even more
WOW!
It kinda strange how these two incidents happen at the same place – a wanda if a somebody spike dem drinks – While some a dem bright enough fi drink and fly- it look fishy that two incidents from the same airport in space a weeks?