Taken with drink – Dagsavisen

Gardermoen: – The crew of four people from a non-Nordic airline and they were stopped with blood alcohol above 0.2, said operations manager Thorleif Skovereng in Romerike Police NTB when the matter became known .

aviation staff blew red when they were stopped during a routine check at Oslo Airport in time 5:15 Saturday morning. All four are now taken care of by the police, and it is secured blood samples.

– They sit in jail in Lillestrom, charged per thousand. They will be prepared for remand on Monday said jourhavende lawyer Charlotte Visdalen Benneche in Romerike Police VG.

The four crew members are now in custody Lillestrom. Three of them are interrogated, police told VG.

The tip of hotel employee

Police would not comment on how high the blood alcohol limit crew blew.

– Police got a tip from a hotel employee and decided to take action, says police lawyer Edith Ek Sørensen, to TV 2.

Charter plane with over 100 passengers were going to Chania on Crete in Greece clockwise 5:45, writes VG. It was Latvia’s largest airline, airBaltic, which stood for the flight, on behalf of the travel agency Star Tour.

Communications with Star Tour, Nora Aspengren, says to NRK that it is too early to say on the matter for the consequences collaborated with the airline.

– Here are four individuals who have done nothing wrong. It is very good that Gardermoen has good procedures to detect such cases, she said.

Claimed they were sick

air passenger Erling Langeland says VG that airport staff claimed it was illness that prevented the flight.

– We checked in as usual and went to the street. Eventually the crew, they walked past and into the plane. We did not react to behavior or gait, he said.

Langeland says that soon after it came a police car, the crew was taken off the plane and driven away.

– We are pleased that taking breath testing and the crew can not fly if they are affected, says Langeland.

Just before the clock 11 was the plane in the air – with a new crew. Airline write on Facebook that they “are investigating the incident at BT7843 and will quickly return with more information.” (NTB)