3 Japan Airlines flights from Hawaii were delayed up to 18 hours after a pilot for one of the flights was found drinking

• Japan Airlines flights last week were delayed after a pilot was found drinking before his flight.

• Three flights from Hawaii to Japan were delayed by up to 18 hours because of the incident.

• This is at least the fourth case of a Japan Airlines pilot being caught drinking before a flight.

Several Japan Airlines flights from Hawaii to Japan were delayed up to 18 hours after a pilot was found drinking the day before his flight.

The airline said in a assertion to BI on Thursday that the pilot was scheduled to fly JL793 from Honolulu to Chubu Centrair International Airport on August 28. Japan Airlines told BI that the pilot got here clean about drinking three cans of beer before the flight took off.

The airline said in the assertion that the captain had consumed three cans of beer alone in the resort room the day before departure, and was deemed unfit to fly. A alternative pilot was found for the flight.

The flight and two subsequent flights, headed for Haneda Airport in Tokyo, were delayed by around 18 hours because of the incident, the airline said.

“It was also found that the captain had consumed alcohol at stay locations multiple times in the past,” the assertion said. The airline added that the pilot had altered the date and time settings of the alcohol detector to conceal outcomes in earlier situations.

Kyodo News reported that around 630 passengers were affected by the delays.

The news outlet said that Japanese transport and aviation officers visited Japan Airlines’ headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday and launched an investigation into the case.

“We sincerely apologize to our customers and all parties involved for the inconvenience and trouble caused,” the airways said in an emailed assertion to Bloomberg.

The assertion added, “We are committed to working as a company to ensure the thorough implementation of measures to prevent recurrence.”

This is at least the fourth case of a Japan Airlines pilot being caught drinking before a flight, inflicting delays.

In April last yr, a flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled after the captain acquired drunk in a resort bar and in his room. The Mainichi reported then that a resort worker had called local police, reporting the pilot’s disorderly conduct.

In February, two Japan Airlines pilots were suspended from flying for drinking before their December flight from Melbourne to Tokyo, per an AFP report.

It’s not just pilots from Japan Airlines that have been found drinking before flights.

In March 2024, a Delta Air Lines pilot was jailed after he was found to be over the legal alcohol restrict on a flight from Edinburgh to New York in June 2023, per a report by The Guardian. The pilot was caught during a bag search at Edinburgh with two bottles of Jägermeister, one of which was half empty.

In January, a Southwest Airlines pilot who was due to fly from Savannah, Georgia, to Chicago was charged with driving under the affect. The pilot was eliminated from the cockpit, and the flight landed at its vacation spot 5 hours after its scheduled time.

Representatives for Japan Airlines didn’t reply to a request for remark from Business Insider.

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