The U.S. pilot, identified by the French news daily Le Parisien as Henry W., 63, arrived at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to fly a Boeing 777 to Washington Dulles International Airport and on to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
, 63, arrived at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to fly a Boeing 777 to Washington Dulles International Airport and on to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
However, upon being tested for alcohol by airport police in Paris, it was found that the pilot was over the legal blood-alcohol limit.in a tweet that he had 1.12 grams of alcohol per liter of blood. Converted to the customary American measure of grams per 100 milliliters, the BAC was 0.112, nearly three times the 0.04 limit under Federal Aviation AdministrationAll employees performing a safety-sensitive function such as a pilot is removed from duty if they are found to have a BAC of 0.04 or higher.rules that drinking is not allowed for pilots within 10 hours of a flight taking off.
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