Lion Air Pilot Tests Positive For Meth
 

From Reuters:

Lion Air's slogan "We make you fly" came a bit too close to home this weekend when one of the Indonesian airline's pilots tested positive for crystal meth after being arrested just hours before he was due to take off.
The 44-year-old pilot for Indonesia's largest domestic airline by passenger volume was arrested in a hotel on Saturday in Surabaya, Indonesia's second city, Sumirat Dwiyanto, spokesperson for the National Narcotics Agency, told Reuters.
He was due to head to fly to Makassar on Sulawesi island, Balikpapan on Borneo and back to Surabaya, Dwiyanto said.
"The pilot ... was arrested (on Saturday) at 3:30 a.m. with 0.04 grams of crystal meth slipped in an envelope and he was later tested positive for the drug," Dwiyanto said.
He is the second pilot to test positive for Lion Air in 2012. Crystal meth is known as "shabu-shabu" in Indonesia and between 2010 and 2011 it overtook marijuana as the number one drug in the country of 240 million people, a senior narcotics agency official said.
Budget Airline Lion Air serves domestic flights and routes from Indonesian cities to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh. A spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
In November it placed a $21.7 billion order with Boeing, its biggest commercial order on record. The 230 short-haul 737 jets deal takes Lion Air's orderbook to more than 400 planes.
The government now will require pilots and cabin crew to undergo drug and alcohol tests before boarding a plane, Transport Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan told Reuters by telephone.
Indonesia is struggling to upgrade its civil air safety after a series of deadly accidents that led the European Union in 2007 to ban all Indonesian airlines from its airspace. The ban was lifted progressively starting in 2009.

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Yikes!!!!!!!!

It should be interesting to see how many more are caught during the mandatory drug testing.

Why am I not surprised.

One of many who have been busted over the past two years.

Like that doesn't happen here

Maybe it was medicinal meth!

Is Indonesia one of the countries that will put you to death for certain drug-related offenses?

Trafficking drugs is instant death penalty, or so they advertise. Personal use, prolly not

Best ILS he's ever flown.......:eek:

For some for sure. I was there for Suharto's meltdown. Realized the rioters didn't have a chance when I saw a story in the paper, a kid who had been going to school in the US came home and they found a pistol in his luggage. Penalty for possession of a firearm - death.