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Mr_Creepy · November 11th, 2003, 06:43

This actually happened to me. A passeneger (who "appeared to have been drinking") got on in MSY (yeah Mardi Gras time - that is one horrible event.)

He leaned into the 1900 cockpit and breathed whatever rotgut he was drinking all over us and said "Hope you boys haven't been drinking! Have you been drinking?" Then he walks down the aisle saying "I sure hope them boys haven't been drinking! You know those airline pilots!"

I looked at the FO and said, "Well we aren't going anywhere for a while"

I called Ops and told them to send security and local police, and to call the company and arrange breathlyzer tests for both of us. I know this was going a little bit beyond the scope but I wanted the other passengers to know, that we were sober!

The police removed the offending passenger. I asked security to stay with us until the breathlyzer (from DOT STOP) arrived. We did the breathlyzer right on the ramp, in view of the passengers (but not in view of the terminal! If you go to MSY and see where the 1900s are you can see that this is possible. I did not want the terminal to see this going on!)

The DOT STOP guy then announced to the passengers that we were 0.0 on the alcohol scale. I took a 40 minute delay for this but my chief pilot called me to say I did the right thing.

When we landed in Jackson, and later in Little Rock, several passengers complimented us for "doing the right thing."

November 11th, 2003, 06:43	#17
Mr_Creepy Old Skool Join Date: May 2003 Location: In the O-zone Posts: 5,807	Re: Irate Passenger/Alky Hall. This actually happened to me. A passeneger (who "appeared to have been drinking") got on in MSY (yeah Mardi Gras time - that is one horrible event.) He leaned into the 1900 cockpit and breathed whatever rotgut he was drinking all over us and said "Hope you boys haven't been drinking! Have you been drinking?" Then he walks down the aisle saying "I sure hope them boys haven't been drinking! You know those airline pilots!" I looked at the FO and said, "Well we aren't going anywhere for a while" I called Ops and told them to send security and local police, and to call the company and arrange breathlyzer tests for both of us. I know this was going a little bit beyond the scope but I wanted the other passengers to know, that we were sober! The police removed the offending passenger. I asked security to stay with us until the breathlyzer (from DOT STOP) arrived. We did the breathlyzer right on the ramp, in view of the passengers (but not in view of the terminal! If you go to MSY and see where the 1900s are you can see that this is possible. I did not want the terminal to see this going on!) The DOT STOP guy then announced to the passengers that we were 0.0 on the alcohol scale. I took a 40 minute delay for this but my chief pilot called me to say I did the right thing. When we landed in Jackson, and later in Little Rock, several passengers complimented us for "doing the right thing."