Traffic Exchange

Jun 10, 2013

DonbassAero flight cancelled because crew drunk

DonbassAero flight cancelled because crew drunk, A flight of the Ukrainian company DonbassAero that was scheduled yesterday for the route between Simferopol and Kiev, was canceled because all crew was drunk, deputy in the Supreme Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament informed today.

“The plane did not take off because all the crew members, from first to last, were very drunk,” deputy from Communist Party Leonid Grach said.

The deputy was traveling on that flight with Attorney General, Tatiana Korniakova, who finally had to participate in the facts investigation.

“And that happened at one o’clock, after a night out,” Grach said, who added that 86 passengers were affected by the crew behavior.

The deputy said that when the investigation began, the failures of the control system were evident. Dangerously, it is unclear under what conditions are pilots or flight attendants when they take over a flight, which puts at risk in passenger’s lives.