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Drunk Flight Attendant Busted After Passing Out For The Entire Flight
By TiffinOhio.net Staff
A boozed-up flight attendant was busted in Indiana after passengers saw her stumbling all over the cabin — and then passing out in her seat for the entire flight, according to new reports.
Julianne March, 49, of Waukesha, Wis., was charged Thursday with misdemeanor public intoxica- tion. She was arrested Aug. 2 after being removed from the plane when it landed in South Bend. She was released the next day and has an initial hearing sched-
uled for Aug. 29. The sentencing range for the charge is up to 180 days.
When the plane landed in South Bend, officers boarded, March started crying and, when asked which city she was in, said Chicago, the criminal com- plaint said.
And when administered a Breathalyzer test, her level was 0.204, five times over the legal limit for flight attendants, the complaint said.
The Federal Aviation Administration s aid the limit for all aviation sen- sitive positions — pilot, flight attendant,
mechanic, for example — is .04 for alcohol.
One passenger wrote a tweet addressed to United Airlines during the flight to complain about March’s condition.
“Our flight atten-
dant appears to be quite drunk,” Aaron Scherb tweeted. “She is slurring her speech (she couldn’t make it through the security announcement), couldn’t walk straight/was bumping into everyone in the
aisle, and kept dropping things.”
March fell asleep in the jump seat after takeoff, and pas- sengers even had to fasten her seat belt, Scherb told a local outlet.
Another passen- ger, who only gave his name as Dan, told ABC News that even the pilot wasn’t able to get in touch with March. He said the “whole plane ... noticed something was wrong” and that the attendant’s phone rang “multiple times without her answering” it.
“[That] to me was the most concerning part because the
pilot wasn’t able to communicate with the lone flight attendant and took off any- way,” he said.
Air Wisconsin did not respond to a request for comment.
When asked about the inci- dent by The Tribune earlier this week, a spokesperson for United Airlines said the request was for- warded to Air Wisconsin, which respond- ed that, “The flight attendant was detained by authorities after a report of pos- sible impair- ment. We are investigating the situation and fully cooperating with the local authorities.”
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