Sorry our pilot is wasted: Drunk American Airlines co-pilot thrown off the plane in handcuffs

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Sorry, our pilot is drunk. This flight is cancelled.

Sorry, our pilot is drunk. This flight is cancelled.

American Airlines flight 736 from Detroit to Philadelphia was cancelled on Saturday morning after the co-pilot was taken into custody when he allegedly failed a breathalyzer test administered by airport police, CNN reports, citing airport spokesperson Michael Conway.

Passengers preparing to take-off have described โ€œchaoticโ€ scenes after the flightโ€™s co-pilot was detained on suspicion of being drunk.

Passengers on the aircraft at Detroit Metropolitan Airport said they saw a man being put into handcuffs on the tarmac, and it was their co-pilot.

Airport police were called to the North Terminal at Detroit International Airport in the early hours in response to a pilot โ€œexhibiting signs of being drunk.โ€

Federal Aviation Administration guidelines state pilots cannot fly with a blood alcohol content of 0.04 percent or above.

The airline apologized to any customers affected by the incident and added they were re-accommodating people whose travel plans had been disrupted on a plane operated by a sober pilot.

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Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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