'Drunk' Pilot Sparks Revolt on Flight to New York

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'Drunk' Pilot Sparks Revolt on Flight to New York

Times of London
Wednesday, February 04, 2009


It is normally a moment of cheery reassurance when an airline pilot greets passengers
during preparations for take-off. But Alexander Cheplevsky sparked panic on flight Aeroflot 315
when he began to speak.

His slurred and garbled comments ahead of a Dec. 29 flight from Moscow to New York convinced
passengers that he was drunk. When he apparently switched from Russian into unintelligible English,
fear turned to revolt.

Flight attendants initially ignored passengers' complaints and threatened to expel them from the
Boeing 767 jet unless they stopped "making trouble".

As the rebellion spread, Aeroflot representatives boarded the aircraft to try to calm down the 300 passengers.
One sought to reassure them by announcing that it was "not such a big deal" if the pilot was drunk because
the aircraft practically flew itself.

Cheplevsky did little to ease passengers' fears by refusing to leave the cockpit to show that he was sober.

When he was finally persuaded to face them, witnesses said that he appeared unsteady on his feet
and had bloodshot eyes.

"I don't think there's anyone in Russia who doesn't know what a drunk person looks like," Katya Kushner,
one of the passengers, told the Moscow Times, which had a reporter traveling on the flight.

"At first, he was looking at us like we were crazy.
Then, when we wouldn't back down, he said ...
'I'll sit here quietly in a corner. We have three more pilots. I won't even touch the controls, I promise'."



LINK to full story

c/thru wrote:

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'Drunk' Pilot Sparks Revolt on Flight to New York

Times of London
Wednesday, February 04, 2009


It is normally a moment of cheery reassurance when an airline pilot greets passengers
during preparations for take-off. But Alexander Cheplevsky sparked panic on flight Aeroflot 315
when he began to speak.

His slurred and garbled comments ahead of a Dec. 29 flight from Moscow to New York convinced
passengers that he was drunk. When he apparently switched from Russian into unintelligible English,
fear turned to revolt.

Flight attendants initially ignored passengers' complaints and threatened to expel them from the
Boeing 767 jet unless they stopped "making trouble".

As the rebellion spread, Aeroflot representatives boarded the aircraft to try to calm down the 300 passengers.
One sought to reassure them by announcing that it was "not such a big deal" if the pilot was drunk because
the aircraft practically flew itself.

Cheplevsky did little to ease passengers' fears by refusing to leave the cockpit to show that he was sober.

When he was finally persuaded to face them, witnesses said that he appeared unsteady on his feet
and had bloodshot eyes.

"I don't think there's anyone in Russia who doesn't know what a drunk person looks like," Katya Kushner,
one of the passengers, told the Moscow Times, which had a reporter traveling on the flight.

"At first, he was looking at us like we were crazy.
Then, when we wouldn't back down, he said ...
'I'll sit here quietly in a corner. We have three more pilots. I won't even touch the controls, I promise'."



LINK to full story

That would freak you out!!!!!!

hey, the co-pilot was probably going to fly the first leg anyway, and the captain had probably a 6+ hour flight to sleep it off. As we used to say, "kick a tire, light a fire..."

Dumbo wrote:

hey, the co-pilot was probably going to fly the first leg anyway, and the captain had probably a 6+ hour flight to sleep it off. As we used to say, "kick a tire, light a fire..."

you saying you were a FlyBoy ?

c/thru wrote:

Dumbo wrote:

hey, the co-pilot was probably going to fly the first leg anyway, and the captain had probably a 6+ hour flight to sleep it off. As we used to say, "kick a tire, light a fire..."

you saying you were a FlyBoy ?

A lifetime ago.

Dumbo wrote:

c/thru wrote:

Dumbo wrote:

hey, the co-pilot was probably going to fly the first leg anyway, and the captain had probably a 6+ hour flight to sleep it off. As we used to say, "kick a tire, light a fire..."

you saying you were a FlyBoy ?

A lifetime ago.

You fly with him then.

Joebert wrote:

Dumbo wrote:

c/thru wrote:

Dumbo wrote:

hey, the co-pilot was probably going to fly the first leg anyway, and the captain had probably a 6+ hour flight to sleep it off. As we used to say, "kick a tire, light a fire..."

you saying you were a FlyBoy ?

A lifetime ago.

You fly with him then.

hmmmm get ready for another hudson river landing

hey remember this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgCaPQbNK28

KK wrote:

hey remember this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgCaPQbNK28

Like this one better... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq62iQo0eU

KK wrote:

hmmmm get ready for another hudson river landing

We will probably never see another landing and rescue like that and surely not from a drunken Russian

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

hey remember this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgCaPQbNK28

Like this one better... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq62iQo0eU

he was funny as hell

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

hmmmm get ready for another hudson river landing

We will probably never see another landing and rescue like that and surely not from a drunken Russian

seriously, that was a miraculous story

>"I don't think there's anyone in Russia who doesn't know what a drunk person looks like," Katya Kushner,
one of the passengers, told the Moscow Times,<



You can bet your life on that........

Okay now I know this is terribly tasteless (again)...




... but...

BMG wrote:

>"I don't think there's anyone in Russia who doesn't know what a drunk person looks like," Katya Kushner,
one of the passengers, told the Moscow Times,<



You can bet your life on that........

sips vodka

java wrote:

Okay now I know this is terribly tasteless (again)...




... but...

Like some of the picture after 9-11

Joebert wrote:

Like some of the picture after 9-11

I remember when that plane crashed in the potomac river and howard stern called the airline and ask if that would become a regular stop from now on.

Joebert wrote:

Like some of the picture after 9-11

Yeah I've had that pic for several years but I can't help it, I'm bad, I'm guilty, it's still hysterically funny to me in some sick and twisted way.

java wrote:

Joebert wrote:

Like some of the picture after 9-11

Yeah I've had that pic for several years but I can't help it, I'm bad, I'm guilty, it's still hysterically funny to me in some sick and twisted way.

I was there that day. saw the second plane hit and both building go down. images i will never forget

I was there that day. saw the second plane hit and both building go down. images i will never forget[/quote]

Images I don't think any one will forget since it was played out live foor everyone to see.

Joebert wrote:

I was there that day. saw the second plane hit and both building go down. images i will never forget

Images I don't think any one will forget since it was played out live foor everyone to see.[/quote]i was close enough to see people standing on the ledges and jumping off the top floors. eeerie

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

I was there that day. saw the second plane hit and both building go down. images i will never forget

Images I don't think any one will forget since it was played out live foor everyone to see.

i was close enough to see people standing on the ledges and jumping off the top floors. eeerie[/quote]

I saw some of that film on the first few days after the explosions, but after that they took them off television and it seems like the only place you can see some of those scenes is on the internet now.

java wrote:

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

I was there that day. saw the second plane hit and both building go down. images i will never forget

Images I don't think any one will forget since it was played out live foor everyone to see.

i was close enough to see people standing on the ledges and jumping off the top floors. eeerie

I saw some of that film on the first few days after the explosions, but after that they took them off television and it seems like the only place you can see some of those scenes is on the internet now.[/quote]if you could read my mind you could see them. at first i wasn't sure i was seeing what i thought i saw. then i felt sick