*A few years ago, Denzel Washington played a pilot who was accused of flying a passenger airliner while drunk.
In a case of life imitating art, federal prosecutors in California have charged David Arntson, a 60-year-old former Alaska Airlines pilot, with flying a plane from Oregon to California after having too many alcoholic beverages. (In my opinion, one is too many if I am going to get on a plane with him behind the wheel.) He was arrested last week and charged with one felony count of operating a plane while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to federal prosecutors.
Arnison flew two flights on June 20, 2014. After the second flight landed in Orange County, California a random drug test registered his blood alcohol level of between 0.134 and 0.142 percent, prosecutors charge. A BAC of 0.08 percent is enough to get someone busted for DUY while driving on the ground.
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