Canadian police have charged the Sunwing Airlines pilot with impairment after the incident on New Year’s Eve. Officers said the pilot boarded the Boeing 737 with 99 passengers and six crew members in Calgary, Alberta, for a flight that was scheduled to make stops in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, before continuing on to Cancun, Mexico. But before it took off police said the gate crew as well as crewmembers on the aircraft indicated he was behaving strangely. Police allege the co-pilot found the pilot passed out in the cockpit. Sgt. Paul Stacey told a press conference: “They found him slumped over in the seat. He was the captain.” The pilot was escorted from the plane and has been charged with having care and control of an aircraft while being impaired, as well as having a blood-alcohol level exceeding .08 while in care and control of an aircraft. Stacey said police allege the suspect had three times the legal amount of alcohol in his system.
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