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Old Nov 11, 2003 | 9:50 pm
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BA Captain drunk at controls? Waiting Pax Help Blow Whistle - Ironic?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003520562,00.html

A BOOZED-UP British Airways captain and his co-pilot were arrested yesterday just before their jet was due to take off.

William McAuliffe, 50, and David Ryan, 26, were hauled off the plane and thrown in a cell by cops after failing a cockpit breath test.

The London-bound flight’s purser Michele Giannandrea, 48 — said to have been in a club with the pilots hours before — was also held in Oslo, Norway.

Some of the trippers waiting to board the 200-seater Airbus told ground staff they were worried about the state of some crew members.

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