Looks like he picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue

Pilot's breakdown forced attendant to help land plane

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press
Nov. 19, 2008, 3:05PM

DUBLIN, Ireland ? An Air Canada co-pilot having a mental breakdown had
to be forcibly removed from the cockpit, restrained and sedated, and a
stewardess with an out-of-date license for reading airplane instruments
helped the pilot safely make an emergency landing, an Irish
investigation concluded Wednesday.

The report said the pilot summoned several flight attendants to remove
the co-pilot from the cockpit, and one flight attendant suffered an
injured wrist in the struggle.

The pilot then asked flight attendants to find out if any passenger was
a qualified pilot. When none was found, one stewardess admitted she
held a current commercial pilot's license but said her license for
reading cockpit instruments had expired.

"The flight attendant provided useful assistance to the commander, who
remarked in a statement to the investigation that she was 'not out of
place' while occupying the right-hand seat," the report said.
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