Drunk crew delays Russian freight plane in Sweden
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 19:23:00 02/04/2008
STOCKHOLM -- A Russian freight plane scheduled to fly from the southern Swedish town of Malmoe to Moscow was delayed Monday after two crew members were found to be drunk, police said.
"The airport received a tip that the crew might be drunk since they had been seen partying through the night. A test was conducted and two of the eight crew members were found to be intoxicated," Malmoe police spokesman Lars Foerstell told Agence France-Presse.
New tests would be conducted on the two Russian crew members, a radio operator and a flight engineer, every few hours, Foerstell said.
The plane, which had been scheduled to leave at around 0700 GMT, would not be permitted to take off until eight hours after the tests came up completely clean, he added.
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