Booze tests for Japanese pilots to be mandatory
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Japan plans to make alcohol tests mandatory for pilots, officials said yesterday, following a series of flight delays caused by drunk or hungover pilots at Japanese carriers.
The move comes after a Japan Airlines co-pilot was arrested in Britain last month shortly before a flight for being almost 10 times over the legal blood alcohol limit.
A transport ministry panel yesterday agreed a proposal to impose mandatory testing on airlines and breath alcohol limits of 0.09 milligrams per liter.
The drink-drive limit is 0.15 milligrams.
The official proposal is expected to be unveiled tomorrow.
Under Japan鈥檚 current system, while plane crew members are banned from drinking within eight hours of working, there is no legal limit set and breath tests are not required.
The JAL co-pilot cleared an in-house breath test but aroused the suspicion of a bus driver taking him to the plane at Heathrow Airport.
London police said a test on the co-pilot taken 50 minutes before the flight鈥檚 scheduled departure revealed he was nearly 10 times over the limit. He had reportedly consumed two bottles of wine and more than 1.8 liters of beer over six hours on the night before the flight.
All Nippon Airways said last month that a hungover pilot had caused multiple flight delays.
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