OSLO, Norway, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A Pakistani International Airlines pilot found to be intoxicated just before a flight from Norway to Pakistan has been sentenced to six months in jail.
The pilot was arrested at Gardermoen Airport outside Oslo in August. He admitted in court that he had several drinks the night before he was scheduled to be co-pilot on a flight to Pakistan and that he also had wine with his dinner, the newspaper Romerikes Blad reported.
Police were summoned to the airport after someone reported that a pilot in uniform appeared to be drunk. They found the co-pilot in the cockpit of the PIA jet updating the computer system.
His blood alcohol level proved to be well over the legal limit, the report said.
The judge who sentenced the pilot discounted his testimony that he had told the pilot he was too sick to fly on the return flight.
