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London. Police arrests drunk aircraft pilot

Cloche of a taking off airplane with 300 people on board -VIDEO

As confirmed by the Sussex authorities, it was about 8:30pm of last Thursday when a phone call alerted the police, who immediately rushed to gate 17 of the south Terminal of London-Gatwick airport: the colleagues of a British Airways pilot warned that he was about to take off in an evident state of drunkenness, as the first officer on a plane with 300 people on board.The employees of the English airline...

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London, UK, 01/22/2018 12:00
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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