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London - The captain of a Virgin Atlantic flight was hauled off his plane in handcuffs for being "drunk".
The incident happened in front of shocked passengers of a New York bound flight from Heathrow Terminal 3.
The pilot, 47, was breathalysed and arrested behind the controls even as more than 300 people on board the Airbus 340 flight, VS003, waited for take off to JFK in Queens, NY.
The flight eventually did take off an hour late after a replacement pilot was found.
According to reports, police swooped down on the pilot after being alerted by security staff, who suspected the flier had been drinking, after a member of security smelt alcohol on his breath and called cops.
"Officers boarded at the last moment and led the pilot away in handcuffs. Another few minutes and he would have been flying across the Atlantic with hundreds of passengers. The results could have been catastrophic," an airport official said. [ANI]
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