Pilot cleared of drink charges

Yates had apparently been out on a six hour drinking session in Manchester on the night before flying, and turned up at work visibly drink, dishevelled and red in the face.

The legal limit to fly a plane is a maximum of 20 milligrams of alcohol in the blood stream. Yates has 129 milligrams when arrested and breathalysed by Police shortly after his arrest.

Yates said that although he turned up at the airport in his uniform, he was going to tell the flight captain that he was unable to do his duties that day.

The charge made by the prosecution was that Yates was carrying out an actvity ancillary to aviation functions while over the drink limit.

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