{"id":304975,"date":"2018-11-02T04:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T04:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304975"},"modified":"2018-11-02T04:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T04:11:51","slug":"japan-airlines-pilot-held-at-heathrow-airport-for-being-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/japan-airlines-pilot-held-at-heathrow-airport-for-being-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Airlines Pilot held at Heathrow Airport for being drunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304976 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-airlines-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Japan-airlines-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Japan-airlines-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Japan-airlines-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Japan-airlines-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Japan-airlines.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Japan Airlines pilot was arrested on Thursday at Heathrow Airport, shortly before his scheduled flight from London to Tokyo as alcohol in his bloodstream surpassed almost 10 times over the legally permitted limit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the 42-year-old\u00a0Katsutoshi Jitsukawa\u00a0pleaded guilty to the offence at the Uxbridge Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Blood tests conducted just 50 minutes before Japan Airlines (JAL) flight JL44 to Tokyo was due to take off with him in the cockpit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jitsukawa was apprehended as the driver of a crew bus alerted police after smelling alcohol on the pilot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Japan Airlines apologised for the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The flight was delayed for over an hour and was operated by the remaining two pilots.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japan Airlines pilot was arrested on Thursday at Heathrow Airport, shortly before his scheduled flight from London to Tokyo as alcohol in his bloodstream surpassed almost 10 times over the legally permitted limit. According to the reports, the 42-year-old\u00a0Katsutoshi Jitsukawa\u00a0pleaded guilty to the offence at the Uxbridge Magistrates&#8217; Court. Blood tests conducted just 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9156,9155,9157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304977,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304975\/revisions\/304977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}