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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Delta Airlines pilot found over alcohol limit before New York flight from Edinburgh jailed

An American pilot who was found to be over the alcohol blood limit just before he was due to fly a plane to New York has been jailed for ten months.

Captain Lawrence Russell, 63, was found to be almost two and a half times the alcohol limit on the day he was due to pilot the Boeing 767 plane from Edinburgh to New York’s JFK Airport on June 16 last year.

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