A British Airways pilot has been sacked after reviews he snorted cocaine off a topless girl earlier than making an attempt to fly a passenger aircraft again to London.
Married pilot Mike Beaton boasted about his antics to a stewardess who raised the alarm, based on The Sun newspaper.
The father of 1 from Devon had been attributable to fly from Johannesburg, South Africa to London.
He was as a substitute flown to Heathrow as a passenger the following day the place he examined constructive for drug use, the paper reported.
In a press release to Sky News, BA confirmed the pilot is now not employed by the airline.
“Safety is always our top priority. The matter was referred to the CAA [Civil Aviation Authority] and this individual no longer works for us,” BA stated.
The airline stated the aircraft from Johannesburg was delayed in a single day whereas a alternative first officer was discovered to function the flight.
Pilot admitted antics in texts
The Sun reported the drug-fuelled incident occurred throughout one in every of Mr Beaton’s nights off in Johannesburg.
In texts to his stewardess colleague, the disgraced pilot described partying with two native males, a feminine Welsh holidaymaker and a younger Spanish girl.
He stated the group met at a nightclub earlier than heading again to one of many males’s flats the place the Class A medication have been apparently produced.
“I’ve lost my shirt somewhere and one of the local lads produces a plate with a few lines of coke,” one of many textual content messages stated, based on The Sun.
“So then there’s a debate about whose chest is the best to do a bump off.”
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The Civil Aviation Authority has withdrawn Mr Beaton’s medical certificates, banning him from flying.
“An airline must immediately inform us if a UK pilot has misused drink or drugs boarding, or being on board, an aircraft,” a CAA spokesperson advised Sky News.
“In these cases we would immediately suspend the pilot’s medical which means they cannot fly.
“In most circumstances the pilot would have an evaluation with an professional medical crew and in the event that they wished to return to flying then a complete rehabilitation programme can be put in place,” the spokesperson said.
“At the tip of that course of the medical would solely be reinstated if we have been utterly glad.”
The Sun stated the pilot’s spouse has declined to remark.
Source: information.sky.com”