February 4, 2009

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Aeroflot sorry for 'drunk' pilot scare: Slurred preflight announcement sparked passenger revolt on Russian airline (Matthew Weaver, 2/04/09, guardian.co.uk)

The Russian airline Aeroflot has apologised to passengers on a transatlantic flight after one of its pilots made such a slurred preflight announcement it created panic on the plane that he was drunk.

The garbled message from one of the plane's two captains, Alexander Cheplevsky, prompted a passenger revolt that forced the airline to replace all three pilots on the Boeing 767 before it took off from Moscow to New York on 28 December last year.

Aeroflot today denied the 55-year-old had been drinking, but they accepted he was in a poor physical state and said sorry to those on board.

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Posted by Orrin Judd at February 4, 2009 6:50 AM
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