A flight nearly left with 108 passengers before police arrested the pilot on suspicion of being drunk. What happened before takeoff turned a normal airport day into a serious safety scare.

The first incident happened Wednesday. An Airbus A320, owned by the Indonesian budget airline Citilink, was scheduled to fly from Surabaya, Indonesia to Jakarta. The pilot, identified as 32-year-old ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Southwest Airlines pilot from New Hampshire was arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly showing up to work intoxicated. The ...

Gronych, 37, appeared in court yesterday and entered a guilty plea to having care and control of an aircraft while his blood alcohol level exceeded 0.8 mg. The former pilot, described as being tearful ...

WASHINGTON -- After a doubling of airline pilots failing Breathalyzer tests, the government has tightened procedures to keep those caught drunk out of the cockpit. Last year, 22 commercial airline ...

Every few months, a pilot somewhere in the world is stopped before a jet takes off because of suspicion of drunkenness. It makes headlines and gives nervous travelers another reason to avoid flying.