{"id":140103,"date":"2018-06-12T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ba-gatwick-airport-double-vodkas-pilot-jailed\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:36:55","slug":"ba-gatwick-airport-double-vodkas-pilot-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ba-gatwick-airport-double-vodkas-pilot-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"BA Gatwick Airport double vodkas pilot jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Julian Monaghan was arrested at Gatwick on 18 January <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A British Airways pilot who turned up for work after drinking three double vodkas has been jailed.<\/p>\n

Julian Monaghan boarded a plane to Mauritius at Gatwick Airport, but was led away in handcuffs after colleagues smelt the alcohol and called police.<\/p>\n

He had 86mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood in his system in January - the legal limit for a pilot is 20mg.<\/p>\n

Monaghan, 49, admitted being over the proscribed alcohol limit and was jailed for eight months at Lewes Crown Court.<\/p>\n

During sentencing, Judge Janet Waddicor told Monaghan, who resigned from his British Airways job, "you took a risk and it didn't pay off because you were caught".<\/p>\n

'Bottle to throttle'<\/h2>\n

"You are in charge of a huge aircraft. The safety, if not the lives, indeed, of passengers and crew members are in the hands of the pilot. They are entitled to feel that they are safe."<\/p>\n

Monaghan had initially queried the results of the tests but resigned two months after his arrest when further tests confirmed the samples were accurate.<\/p>\n

He had insisted he obeyed the airline's eight-hour "bottle to throttle rule", which forbids pilots from drinking for that amount of time before going on duty.<\/p>\n

The 12-hour flight had been scheduled to leave at 20:20 GMT, but the Boeing 777 was left waiting at the gate while airline staff looked for a third pilot. It eventually took off just before 23:00.<\/p>\n

Defending Monaghan, Emlyn Jones said his client would not have had to take up the role of pilot until three-and-a-half hours into the flight.<\/p>\n

He had argued his client was only "a fraction" over the alcohol limit for drivers of 80mg per 100ml of blood.<\/p>\n

A British Airways spokeswoman said: "This behaviour is completely unacceptable and not what we expect from our highly professional fleet of pilots.<\/p>\n

"The safety and security of our customers and colleagues is always our top priority."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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