A former Emirates Airline flight attendant has been fined for being eight times over the legal drinking limit during a flight from Dubai to Birmingham, UK.
Stephanie Partington, a 24-year-old Brit, was fined £110, with £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge under the Civil Aviation Act after admitting her capacity to act had been impaired through drink.
The air hostess was reportedly talking so loudly during the flight she was asked to ‘quieten down’ by her superior.
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Suspicions were raised further when routine paperwork she filled out at the end of the seven-hour flight from Dubai to Birmingham was illegible, according to reports in the UK’s Daily Mail.
The captain of the Emirates flight radioed ahead for police who met the plane when it landed. Partington, from Liverpool, who insisted she had not been drinking during the flight, was arrested when she failed a breath test.
Further procedures revealed she had 164mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood – twice the drink-drive limit of 80mg and eight times the legal limit of 20mg for flight attendants under aviation law.
Partington was sacked by Emirates Airline before appearing in court.
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