Airline executives resign after ‘drunken’ pilot allowed into cabin of plane with 154 passengers
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Low-cost Indonesian airline Citilink found itself in hot water after it emerged that one of its pilots had passed a pre-flight check despite being heavily intoxicated. His plane’s takeoff was delayed after some of the 154 passengers decided to disembark.
The subsidiary of national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia said the pilot in question was fired after the Wednesday morning incident, and two of Citilink’s top executives announced their resignations on Friday as a gesture of responsibility, the Jakarta Post reported.
The pilot, identified as Tekad Purna, showed up for duty on Wednesday to fly a plane from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, to Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.Passengers reported that he could not speak coherently when announcing takeoff and was acting suspiciously. Footage from a security camera shows him stumbling and dropping things as he was passing a check at the airport.The airline replaced Tekad with another pilot after the passengers on board his plane protested, with some saying they would rather get off than fly with the drunk captain.
Tekad was sacked on Friday after spending two days under suspension. In addition, Citilink President Director Albert Burhan and Operational Director Hadinoto Soedigno resigned, announcing the decision at a media conference called to brief the public on the scandalous incident.
The exact state of the pilot at the time of the incident is expected to be revealed next week, when results of the two medical tests he was ordered to undergo are ready.
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Airline executives resign after ‘drunken’ pilot allowed into cabin of plane with 154 passengers
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Airline executives resign after ‘drunken’ pilot allowed into cabin of plane with 154 passengers
Re: Airline executives resign after ‘drunken’ pilot allowed into cabin of plane with 154 passengers
Airline executives resign for inappropriate actions of their employees. A foreign airline, no less.
Perhaps some airlines here need to take a page from that book.
Who wants to lay odds one person other than the pilot will lose their job at SW?
It's called Honor, Honesty, accountability, leadership.
Totally Foreign concepts here in Canada, and sadly they are laughed at by most people.
Perhaps some airlines here need to take a page from that book.
Who wants to lay odds one person other than the pilot will lose their job at SW?
It's called Honor, Honesty, accountability, leadership.
Totally Foreign concepts here in Canada, and sadly they are laughed at by most people.
Re: Airline executives resign after ‘drunken’ pilot allowed into cabin of plane with 154 passengers
Who else do you think should lose their job over this?
Liberalism itself as a religion where its tenets cannot be proven, but provides a sense of moral rectitude at no real cost.
Re: Airline executives resign after ‘drunken’ pilot allowed into cabin of plane with 154 passengers
Other than the pilot, the ones that should lose their jobs over this are the security personnel who allowed a totally hammered pilot to clear their checkpoint. I honestly don't understand what the airline executives have to do with this. Unless they were aware that this guy had an existing drinking problem and did nothing about it, or have fostered some type of culture at their airline that minimized the seriousness of excessive drinking on layovers etc
