Friday, August 14, 2015

Charge against Air Baltic-crew expanded – NRK

The newspaper VG reports.

– On the basis of the evidence is the charge for all expanded to include violations of abstinence obligation, says police lawyer Camilla Ek Sørensen in Romerike Police District told NRK.

This means that the police believe that these have consumed alcohol less than eight hours before the service start. According to the Aviation Act Section 6- 12, persons serving on board a plane, abstain from alcohol in the last eight hours before they start to work.

– In addition, the charges against the captain also extended to apply to breaches of the Aviation Act provision which imposes liability manager is responsible for the besetting is competent to perform flight, says Ek Sørensen.

The penalty for violation of each of these provisions is liable to fines or imprisonment of up to two years.

When the captain, first officer and the two cabin crew was prepared for remand on Monday they were only charged with having been affected by alcohol in service, in terms of a concentration in the blood of more than 0.2 per mille.

The captain, first officer and the two cabin crew were drinking and taken Saturday.

The pilot and the first officer was detained for two weeks, because police fear evasion. Flight attendants got one week.

The case comes up Monday at the Lower Romerike District Court in Lillestrom.

The lawyer will currently does not say how long before departure police believe that the crew has consumed alcohol.

– On the basis that we shall carry out a judicial examination on Monday so I do not want to say anything about what they have explained until now, nor what the police think about it. There we will get clarity on Monday, she said.

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