Bloodshot, watery eyes and a flushed complexion... A pilot arrested for drunk driving minutes before his flight
North Carolina police released a video on August 14 in which an airline pilot claims to have only had a few beers before being arrested and dismissed.
Passengers may have avoided the worst. Minutes before taking the controls of a plane, a pilot was arrested by police officers for attempting to fly while intoxicated . A video from Chatham County, North Carolina, law enforcement was released Thursday, August 14, and later relayed by NBC News . Pilot David Allsop appears facing two police officers on the jetway of the plane commandeered for Flight 3772 from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Georgia to Chicago Midway.
The incident took place on January 15th. Authorities stopped David Allsop around 6am and asked him if he had been drinking alcohol. The pilot, now 53, replied that he had consumed "a few beers ten hours ago" and refused to take a breathalyzer test, saying "it was not necessary" . He then took a nicotine pouch out of his mouth and showed it to the police. But one of them claimed that the Southwest Airlines employee "had bloodshot, watery eyes and a red complexion" .
Skip the adDavid Allsop finally complied with the sobriety test. He was unsteady on one leg and had difficulty following the tip of a moving pen. Without hesitation, the police arrested him for being impaired. Since the video was released, Southwest Airlines has dismissed David Allsop "immediately from his duties following the alleged incident," it said in a statement on August 15. The pilot's attorney, David Chaiken, said the video shows no evidence that his client was impaired.
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