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British Airways is having a bad time explaining why a delayed flight in August was not due to a ‘staffing emergency’, but rather because the co-pilot had partied like a rockstar the night before. We reckon this is more likely a ‘snarfing emergency’.

The ’emergency’, it has now been revealed, involved a night of drugs, drinking, and marathon sex by one of the airline’s pilots.

In a rookie mistake, Mike Beaton’s wild night out was described in texts he sent to a stewardess friend. What he described left little doubt that he would not be fit to act as a first officer for a flight out the next day – after he “couldn’t even lift my head” until 14:00 the next day.

She reported him, and the flight was cancelled. Beaton, said The Sun, was flown home the next day as a passenger, subjected to a drug test, and then fired.

Beaton’s reported texts describe a “standard Joburg setup” that went from a bar to “Grillhouse”, thought to be the steakhouse branch in Melville Arch, and then to the Tiger’s Milk restaurant. At the bar he met a “young Spanish bird” and a “Welsh chick”, and at the club, their group of three met “two local lads who live in the compound”, likely Melrose Arch.

The married Beaton said he snorted cocaine from the breasts of one of the women (after starting a debate about which woman’s breast would be best for this exercise) before he started to think “things were getting way out of hand”. So he returned the women to their hotel, where he had drug-fuelled marathon sex with his new Welsh acquaintance.

BA stressed that there had been no risk to passengers, and repeated a short statement it had issued to the British press: “Safety is always our top priority. The matter was referred to the CAA [the UK Civil Aviation Authority] and this individual no longer works for us.”

As for the cocaine co-pilot, his bird-snorting, high-flying days are over. Good thing probably.

What a dumbass.

[source:news24]