The pair are due to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court tomorrow as the risk of 141 boarded passengers was under the two pilots.
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Carlos Licona, 45, and Paul (Brady) Grebenc, 35, are expected to be arraigned today in Glasgow for violating Britain’s transport safety laws.
United Airlines said Saturday’s Flight 162 from Glasgow to the USA city of Newark, New Jersey, was delayed for 10 hours as crew waiting for replacement pilots to take over the aircraft. They were released on bail, with a further court date to be set.
According to BBC, Police Scotland said that the pilots are facing the offences of ruling out the Railways and Transport/Safety Act 2003 (Section 93) which clearly mentions “carrying out pilot function or activity while exceeding the prescribed limit of alcohol”.
The act stipulates that a pilot can not have a blood-alcohol level of more than.02.
A spokesman for United Airlines said: “The two pilots have been removed from service and their flying duties”. Authorities have reportedly declined to say how much alcohol was in their systems.
United Airlines also added; “We are co-operating with the authorities and will conduct our own investigation as well”.
Their arrest comes just weeks after two Canadian pilots were charged with being drunk as they were about to fly a passenger jet from Glasgow to Toronto.
Jean-Francois Perreault, 39, and Imran Zafar Syed, 37, were arrested on July 18 as they were about to pilot an Airbus A310 plane, which carries up to 250 passengers, for Canada’s Air Transat.
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At a second hearing at the same court they were granted bail on condition they surrender their passports.
