Two pilots' alleged tippling delayed a trans-Atlantic Air Transat flight and landed the crew members in jail, police and the airline said.
The Montreal-based
airline delayed a flight from Glasgow, Scotland, to Toronto on Monday, to the
consternation of passengers -- though some changed their tune upon learning
that they'd potentially dodged a disaster by not taking off with the reportedly
drunken pilots.
The flight covers
about 3,300 miles and takes roughly seven hours. It was rescheduled for Tuesday
morning, said Kathryn Munro, Air Transat's UK spokeswoman.
Police Scotland did
not release the pilots' names but said "two men aged 39 and 37 years have
been arrested in relation to being allegedly impaired through alcohol under the
Railway and Transport Safety Act 2003."
The airline, too,
provided scarce details. At first, it said it had "learned of the arrest
of two crew members assigned to its Glasgow-Toronto flight."
Later, it released a statement saying safety was a top
priority and it would "await the results of the investigation and judicial
proceedings before commenting on the matter."
-CNN
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