3 Japan Airlines flights from Hawaii were delayed up to 18 hours after a pilot for one of the flights was found drinking

• Last week, Japan Airlines flights were postponed after drinking before a pilot flight.

• Three flights from Hawaii to Japan were postponed for 18 hours due to incident.

• This is at least the fourth case for a Japan Airlines pilot to be captured before the flight.

A few Japan airline flights from Hawaii to Japan were postponed the day before a pilot’s flight and postponed to 18 hours.

The airline told BI on Thursday that the pilot was planned to fly JL793 from Honolulu to Chubu Centrair International Airport from Honolulu on August 28th. Japan told BI to BI that the pilot was clean in drinking three boxes of beer before the flight got up.

The airline said in a statement that the captain consumed three boxes of beer in the hotel room the day before departure and was not suitable for flying. A spare pilot was found for the flight.

Airline, Tokyo Hanereda Airport flight and the next two flights to the incident due to the incident of about 18 hours, he said.

“The captain also consumed alcohol in accommodation several times in the past.” He said. The airline added that the pilot has changed the date and time settings of the alcohol detector to hide the results in previous cases.

Kyodo News reported that about 630 passengers were affected by delays.

The news organization said that Japanese transportation and aviation officials visited the center of the Japan Airlines in Tokyo on Wednesday and launched an investigation against the case.

“We sincerely apologize to our customers and all parties arising from the problem given to Bloomberg in a statement to Bloomberg. He said.

“We are determined to work as a company to ensure that the measures are applied comprehensively to prevent recurrence.”

This is at least one Japan Airlines pilot’s fourth case that captured while drinking before the flight and caused delays.

In April last year, a flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled. Captain got drunk In a hotel bar and room. Mainichi reported that a hotel employee was looking for local police and reported the pilot’s irregular behavior.

In February, two Japanese Airlines pilots were suspended for flying to drink from Melbourne to Tokyo in December, according to the AFP report.

It is not only the pilots from the Japan Airlines who were seen to drink before flights.

In March 2024, according to a report of Guardian, in June 2023, a Delta Air Lines pilot was imprisoned after the legal alcohol border on flight from Edinburgh to New York. During a bag search in Edinburgh, the pilot was caught with two bottles of Jägermeister, one of whom were half empty.

In January, Savannah is a Southwest Airlines pilot that will fly from Georgia to Chicago accused of driving Under the influence. The pilot was removed from the cockpit and the flight landed for its target five hours after the planned time.

Japan Airlines representatives did not respond to Business Insider’s request for comments.

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