Japan Airlines was unable to find a replacement pilot after a captain scheduled to fly from Dallas to Tokyo on April 23 had a night of raucous drinking with his flight crew.
Japan Airlines grounded a flight from Dallas to Tokyo last week after a hotel room noise complaint exposed the captain's excessive drinking the night before its scheduled takeoff. The airline confirmed that flight JL11 from Dallas to Tokyo on April 23 was canceled because its unidentified 49-year-old pilot was allegedly drinking with crew members the night before, Japanese outlet The Mainchi reported.
' The airline specified that the flight was not canceled because the pilot was intoxicated at the time of the flight: 'It is true that the captain consumed alcohol,' a spokesperson told the Japanese outlet, noting that 'there was a sufficient interval between alcohol consumption and the scheduled duty time.
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