Airline Pilot Jailed For Being More Than Seven Times Over Legal Alcohol Limit

A co-pilot for airBaltic has been jailed for six months after he was busted for being more than seven times over the legal alcohol limit.

The 38-year-old Latvian man confessed to downing two bottles of whisky and some beer with other crew members before a flight carrying 100 passengers from Norway to Greece on August 8.

He was breathalysed shortly before take-off at Oslo airport after cops received an anonymous tip-off.

And, after recording the astonishing reading, he was arrested and hauled before a Norwegian court on Monday.

The judge said the number of lives he’d risked and the fact he knew his colleagues had also been drinking were crucial to his tough sentence.

His 50-year-old pilot colleague, who was allegedly found to be twice over the legal limit, has denied some of the allegations made against him.

He will stand trial on September 17.

AirBaltic said it was launching dismissal procedures against the crew, including two stewardesses who were also allegedly drunk, according to The Local.

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