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The Buffalo News reports:
Police removed a JetBlue pilot from the cockpit of a plane about to depart Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Wednesday morning who had a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit for pilots, a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority spokesperson said.
The pilot was “removed from his duties,” the airline said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. James Clifton, 52, of Orlando, was passing through security when Transportation Security Administration agents noticed he may have been impaired, the NFTA spokesperson said.
Read the full article. The flight was bound for Fort Lauderdale.
A JetBlue pilot who had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit was removed from the cockpit of a plane about to depart
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 2, 2022
JUST IN: A 52-year-old Jet Blue pilot was pulled off a plane in Buffalo, New York, after blowing a blood alcohol content two times the legal limit, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Director of Public Affairs Helen Tederous confirmed. https://t.co/5eHbQqNWve
— ABC News (@ABC) March 2, 2022
Airport police officers removed a pilot from the cockpit of a JetBlue flight departing Buffalo on Wednesday morning and conducted a sobriety test that indicated blood alcohol content more than four times the federal limit for pilots, the authorities said. https://t.co/57JX6WLw7K
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 3, 2022
The pilot was passing through airport security when a Transportation Security Administration officer noticed he was acting drunk and he was given a breathalyzer test.https://t.co/7TzHg4vi7q
— NPR (@NPR) March 3, 2022