Officials stopped Captain Lawrence Russell Jr when an X-ray machine detected the bottles in his luggage.
A drunk pilot who tried to fly a Delta Airlines plane from Scotland to the US, putting hundreds of lives at risk, has been sent to jail for 10 months.
Captain Lawrence Russell Jr was caught with two bottles of Jägermeister in his hand luggage, one which was half empty, during a search at Edinburgh airport in June 2023.Delta pilot Lawrence Russell Jr, 63, was almost 2.5 times the alcohol limit. Russell, who the court heard is an alcoholic, had been scheduled to pilot a Boeing 767 from Edinburgh to New York's JFK airport.The 63-year-old was sentenced at an Edinburgh court today after pleading guilty to reporting for duty as a pilot while being impaired through alcohol.
As the 10-month sentence was imposed, the pilot from Georgia in the US was told that prison was necessary for "punishment protection of the public".Prosecutor Lynne Barrie said Russell's conduct "would have endangered many lives" and "the consequences could have been catastrophic".The Delta pilot was caught with a half empty bottle of Jägermeister in his hand luggage. "The pilot of a commercial aircraft holds the lives of hundreds in his hands.
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