American Eagle Pilot Faces Attempted-Drunk-Flying Charges
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An American Eagle pilot who police said showed up for a flight out of a Minnesota airport smelling of alcohol was charged with attempting to operate a plane while under the influence.
The pilot, Kolbjorn Jarle Kristiansen, 48, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was charged today in a complaint filed at the Hennepin County court in Minneapolis. He was arrested Jan. 4 on a jetway at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after exiting the cockpit of a plane scheduled to leave for New York, according to a police detective’s statement filed with the complaint.