Ex-Pilots Sentenced for Being Drunk on the Job
From Times Wire Reports
Two former America West pilots convicted of operating a packed passenger plane while drunk were sent to prison by a judge who called their crime “outrageous and horrendous.”
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge David Young sentenced Thomas Cloyd, 47, to five years behind bars -- the maximum term -- and Christopher Hughes, 44, to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to fly from Miami International Airport July 1, 2002, after a night of drinking beer.
“What you did was absolutely wrong, outrageous and horrendous,” Young said.
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