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Old 06-11-2017, 09:57 AM
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tomsteve
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Lyle P, the first commercial airline pilot ever arrested for having flown under the influence of alcohol, is a remarkable turnaround story. not sure where to find it in audio, but its out there on the net.

heres a little of his story:
On March 8, 1990, I became the first commercial airline pilot ever arrested for having flown under the influence of alcohol. The story burst onto the news scene with a blistering and unrelenting fury and it stayed there for weeks and weeks on end.

I was disgraced, dishonored, and devastated, and I became a public pariah. Within thirty days I had gone broke, been terminated from Northwest Airlines, stripped of all my FAA credentials during an emergency revocation procedure, and my life had been obliterated. I was mentally and emotionally shredded.
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