Japan Airlines flight canceled after captain got drunk, "disorderly" at hotel

A formation from Texas to Japan had to beryllium canceled aft nan flight's skipper became intoxicated and "engaged successful disorderly behavior" astatine nan edifice wherever they and different unit members were staying, Japan Airlines said Tuesday. 

The unidentified skipper flew from Tokyo, Japan's Haneda Airport to Texas' Dallas Fort Worth International Airport connected April 22. The captain's behaviour astatine nan edifice was not specified but was described arsenic causing "inconvenience to different guests and edifice staff." The skipper received a verbal informing from constabulary astatine nan hotel's request, Japan Airlines said. 

The aviator was assessed and it was wished that nan skipper should not beryllium assigned to nan return formation from Dallas Fort Worth to Tokyo. The hose did opportunity that nan skipper did not person a detectable humor intoxicant level astatine nan scheduled departure clip for nan flight, but it was decided that nan skipper should not alert retired of "necessity to corroborate nan beingness and intelligence information of our operating crew." 

This required an alternate unit to beryllium flown successful from Japan to Texas, nan hose said, and nan formation was canceled because of nan "anticipated important delay" to passengers.

Customers who had seats connected nan canceled formation were told that nan cancellation was because of "health issues" among nan crew. Alternative flights were arranged for passengers. 

"We sincerely apologize to nan customers who were progressive successful this formation cancellation. We are afloat alert of nan seriousness of this situation," nan hose said, adding that it would "thoroughly instrumentality measures to forestall recurrence" of nan incident and "work to reconstruct spot successful our airline." 

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