Suspected Drunk Delta Pilot Removed From Cockpit and Arrested 20 Minutes Before Flight

Suspected Drunk Delta Pilot Removed From Cockpit and Arrested 20 Minutes Before Flight
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Bill Pan
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A Delta Air Lines pilot whom authorities suspected to be intoxicated was removed from a fully boarded plane in a Minnesota airport and arrested.

The pilot, later identified as 37-year-old Gabriel Lyle Schroeder, was taken into custody on Tuesday morning, July 30 after police officers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport smelt alcohol from his breath and found a bottle of booze on him, reported CNN.