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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Take That Homeland Security
Alleged drunk driver arrested on airport runway
Posted: Jan 28, 2008 09:59 AM
A female driver was arrested early Monday morning, after allegedly driving drunk on a Grand Junction Regional Airport runway.
Air traffic was haulted at the airport, after local dispatch received a call that a white SUV was driving on a runway near gate 17.
The call came in shortly after 2:30 this morning.
Multiple Grand Junction Police units responded to that last terminal located off Landing View Lane.
When reporter Brian Shapleigh arrived on scene, officers were searching that white SUV.
At about 3:30 this morning 36-year-old Jamie Bowden was arrested, suspected of drinking and driving.
Police and airport officials are trying to figure out exactly how she gained access onto the runway, but say Bowden may have made her way onto the runway after crashing through a fence that seals off the airport.
Posted: Jan 28, 2008 09:59 AM
A female driver was arrested early Monday morning, after allegedly driving drunk on a Grand Junction Regional Airport runway.
Air traffic was haulted at the airport, after local dispatch received a call that a white SUV was driving on a runway near gate 17.
The call came in shortly after 2:30 this morning.
Multiple Grand Junction Police units responded to that last terminal located off Landing View Lane.
When reporter Brian Shapleigh arrived on scene, officers were searching that white SUV.
At about 3:30 this morning 36-year-old Jamie Bowden was arrested, suspected of drinking and driving.
Police and airport officials are trying to figure out exactly how she gained access onto the runway, but say Bowden may have made her way onto the runway after crashing through a fence that seals off the airport.
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