A Scary thought...........

[mc1962]

JAKARTA — 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.

Can you imagine?

[samrhett2]

Dang!  I like a budget airline ticket as much as the next guy, but I at least want a pilot that isn't a flying high before the plane even takes off!

[handllucas]

This pilot obviously has no concern for his own safety or the safety of others. Drugs impair judgement so drastically. Things are just getting ridiculous.

[luvh8tragedy87]

A very scary thought indeed. I've never been fond of flying in the first place but to hear stuff like this actually happens scares me even more. Some people just don't think.

[lannl]

That information is pretty scary. I am mainly afraid to fly anyway. I wonder how many more pilots are doing this?