A drunk pilot for Romanian airline Tarom caused a flight to be cancelled on Wednesday.
The pilot was supposed to fly the plane from London's Heathrow airport to Bucharest, but British authorities suspected that he was drunk. They refused to let him fly the Airbus A318.
"We cancelled the flight because one crew member was not physically fit to operate. His medical incapacity was tracked down in London during routine checks," the state-owned Romanian carrier Tarom said in a statement, according to Reuters.
"The pilot returned home on Thursday and we suspended him from activity until the investigation is finalised."
The pilot will be fired immediately if tests come back positive for alcohol.
This isn't the only time a pilot was pulled from a flight because he was suspected of being drunk. Earlier this week an off-duty pilot was so drunk on a flight that he groped a female passenger.
In January, a pilot for American Eagle, Kolbjorn Jarle Kristiansen, was removed from the plane before he was set to fly from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to New York because he was drunk.
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