Drunk in the plane's cabin, 10 months imprisonment to the Japanese pilot

A Japanese airline pilot has been sentenced to 10 months in prison this Thursday in London after failing on an antialcol test just prior to the flight from the British capital's <x0ndrow” International Airport.

The first official, Katsuoshi Yitsukawa, 42, was sentenced by the Royal Isleworth Court in western London because his alcohol consumption rate was 10 times that allowed.

The Japanese copilot was arrested at “Heathrow” on October 28th, after failing in the antialcohol test just 50 minutes before flight “JL44” of the Japanese company with the destination Tokyo to leave with the alcoholic in the cabin.

You're a highly experienced pilot, but you've obviously had a lot of alcohol, for a long time and until just moments before you got on the plane”, Judge Philip Matthews said. The most important “of all is the security of all those on board, for more than 12 hours or more on such a long trip. Their security was threatened by your drunk state and your intolerance. The possibility of you taking the lead in that plane is terrible even to think about it. The potential consequences to those on board would be catastrophic”.

Respiratory and respiratory testing resulted in rates above 10 times higher than the limit of 93 milligrams in 100 milliliters of breathing. The legal limit for flying pilots is only 9 mg, follows the TCH.

The “Boeing 777” expected to be run by it could carry up to 244 passengers on a flight, but fortunately everything was caught on time and he left with 69 minutes late.