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...admitted to police that he had been drinking when he pushed his wife around, spat on her and verbally abused her, and in 2000 he was arrested for belligerently harassing his neighbors while soused. So it's a wonder that Cloyd, 44, an America West Airlines pilot, was ever allowed to climb into the captain's seat of an Airbus A319...
Fortunately, that's as far as Cloyd and his co-pilot, Christopher Hughes, 41, got on July 1 before police stopped their America West flight on the Miami International Airport tarmac. Both were charged with a felony of being drunk while almost flying to Phoenix with 124 passengers aboard...
Cloyd was not one of them. The Breathalyzer tests he and Hughes took in Miami suggest a bender that would make a frat house blush. America West bars pilots from drinking 12 hours before a flight; FAA rules say eight hours. Florida's legal blood-alcohol limit is .08. After he allegedly drank much of the night of June 30 in Miami's Coconut Grove section, say police, Cloyd's blood-alcohol level was still .091 the next morning, even as he was about to pilot the 10:38 a.m. flight. Hughes' was .084. Miami airport guards...
Thirty-six years after she first earned her pilot's license, Lee still gets excited when she talks about flying. She is one of the few women certified to fly aviation's biggest bird, the Boeing 747. "It's a pilot's ego plane," she says. "I still get a thrill out of cranking it up and taking off for distant places...
...what places she has been--learning to fly at 17 on a small grass strip in East Stroudsburg, Pa., moving to fly for Shamrock Airlines in Puerto Rico in 1972 because no U.S. airline would hire a female pilot, and in 1978 becoming the first woman pilot hired by Trans World Airlines, then the most glamorous airline going. (Her dad worked there as a pilot. Her mom was a housewife.) Lee was hired by United Parcel Service in 1985 to help expand its air-shipping fleet, and is now the first woman to oversee the company's 2,527 pilots...