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Pilots Sentenced to Prison for Drunkenness
'If Only We'd Spent Two More Hours Mainlining Bloody Marys,' They Lament.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:55 p.m. ET
MIAMI (AP) -- Two airline pilots who got behind the controls while drunk drew sentences Thursday of 2 1/2 years and five years in prison.
Thomas Cloyd, 47, of Peoria, Ariz., and co-pilot Christopher Hughes, 44, of Leander, Texas, settled into the cockpit in July 2002 after a night of heavy drinking at a sports bar.
They were arrested before the America West plane took off for Phoenix but after it had pushed away from the gate. They were found guilty June 8 of operating an aircraft while drunk.
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The pilots had been drinking up until about six hours before their departure time, a violation of the federal eight-hour rule.
'If Only We'd Spent Two More Hours Mainlining Bloody Marys,' They Lament.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:55 p.m. ET
MIAMI (AP) -- Two airline pilots who got behind the controls while drunk drew sentences Thursday of 2 1/2 years and five years in prison.
Thomas Cloyd, 47, of Peoria, Ariz., and co-pilot Christopher Hughes, 44, of Leander, Texas, settled into the cockpit in July 2002 after a night of heavy drinking at a sports bar.
They were arrested before the America West plane took off for Phoenix but after it had pushed away from the gate. They were found guilty June 8 of operating an aircraft while drunk.
[snip]
The pilots had been drinking up until about six hours before their departure time, a violation of the federal eight-hour rule.
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The same is true of nurses and narcotics.
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