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A co-pilot of Japan Airlines (JAL) was sentenced to 10 months in prison Thursday in London after being tested with a blood alcohol level more than ten times the maximum allowed shortly before takeoff of his plane.
Katsutoshi Jitsukawa, 42, was arrested on October 28 at London Heathrow Airport after failing a breathalyzer test 50 minutes before his passenger flight from the British capital to Tokyo took off.
It had 93 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of exhaled breath, more than 10 times the limit of 9 mg allowed for a driver (compared to 35 mg for the legal limit when driving a car in England).
"What matters most is the safety of everyone on this long-haul flight, potentially 12 hours or more. Their safety has been endangered by your intoxication, "said Judge Phillip Matthews of the Isleworth Court (West London), who described the co-pilot as" very drunk ".
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