Pilot too drunk to fly R44, so the drunk passenger flies

[mikea]

Moscow: An inquiry into a helicopter crash in Russia has revealed that the accident which killed all the three aboard occurred because a drunk passenger was allowed to fly the chopper by its drunk pilot.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/drunk-passenger-flying-chopper-caused-fatal-crash_853651.html

"Why is the blind guy driving?"
"He's the only one who's sober."

 

[flyingron]

It was Russia after all.

 

[Captain]

Sounds like sound ADM to me.

"I'm too drunk...you fly"

 

[timwinters]

It was Russia after all.

And the BACs were 0.9, 1.6 & 2.2. Those are pretty close to baseline levels in Russia...

...must have been early in the AM.

:wink2:

 

[Threefingeredjack]

The old saying holds: "Stupidity in an aircraft is self-correcting."