00:00the officer quickly asked the pilot when he last had a drink attempting to establish a timeline
00:10for impairment last night how many hours ago uh like 10 hours ago at least
00:16how many drinks did you have a few beers that's it define a few beers
00:23define a few beers like three okay yeah what'd you drink like beer no light no light yeah anything else
00:32nope okay who are you with my fo okay yeah would you be willing to provide uh feel sobriety with
00:42me right now no why not there's no need well i can smell an odor consistent with an alcoholic beverage
00:49oh sorry please what was that rose you have any fresh ones that haven't been in your mouth yeah
00:57right in my bed
00:59thank you
01:06you're just like this one i can smell it
01:13yeah
01:15yeah
01:17yeah
01:19yeah
01:20yeah
01:21yeah
01:23yeah
01:25yeah
01:26yeah
01:29yeah
01:31yeah
01:32yeah
01:33The officer explained to the pilot that someone had detected the smell of alcohol, leaving
01:56the pilot confused about who would have made that claim.
01:59The officer then began to explain why the concern was raised.
02:29What did you do?
02:30Feel sobriety?
02:31Sure.
02:32Do you have a jacket or something?
02:36I'm going to do the eyes first.
02:48Just watch it.
02:49I know you're not certified, so I have to do it, but just watch for clues and stuff.
02:55This would be a brand new uncharted territory.
02:59Officers conducted a standardized field sobriety test, a series of eye and balance exercises
03:04used to check for signs of alcohol impairment.
03:06We'll do that.
03:07We'll go ahead and do 173.
03:08Do you have any date time?
03:09Yeah.
03:10We do.
03:11I don't have my phone, but maybe my watch is dead, but it's like a few minutes.
03:21Okay.
03:22This can go quickly.
03:23Okay.
03:24Okay.
03:25So do you have any health issues?
03:28I'm sorry, you're a pilot, so you can't have any crazy health issues or any problems or
03:31anything?
03:32No.
03:33I noticed you wear glasses.
03:34I do.
03:35Okay.
03:36I'm just going to ask you to do it.
03:37Let me just go away from the passenger.
03:38Sure.
03:39Okay.
03:40So all I need you to do is the tip of my pen right here, this little white tip, I'm going
03:45to move it back and forth.
03:46I need you to follow it with your eyes and your eyes open.
03:49Do you understand that?
03:50Yeah.
03:51You don't have any issues doing that for me?
03:52Okay.
03:53So just pay attention to the tip of this pen.
03:55Sure.
04:25All right, so this next exercise, I know it's kind of difficult because I have an incline,
04:47but just on here on this muscle flat surface, and I need you to take a series of heel toe
04:50steps.
04:51I'm going to explain it to you.
04:52What you're going to do is you're going to put your left foot, or your right foot, whichever
04:55is more comfortable.
04:56I'm left-handed, so I'm using my right foot first.
04:57You're going to go heel toe.
04:58I'm going to just take a step to the side really quick.
05:01You're just going to take a series of heel toe steps and count out loud.
05:04One, two, three, four, five.
05:08You're going to do that until you get to ten.
05:10Make sure you count out loud.
05:11Make sure you go heel toe.
05:13Don't lift down, but put your arms out for balance.
05:15Do you have any issues with that?
05:16No problem.
05:17No problem.
05:19You can start right there.
05:22All right, you ready?
05:23Yeah.
05:24You may begin.
05:25One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
05:34All right, if you step down on this little platform.
05:55All right, so this next test is called the one-legged stand.
05:59So what you're going to do is whichever foot you prefer, whichever one you feel like you have a stronger balance with,
06:04you're just going to, with your hands at your side, put your foot out in front of you like this,
06:08and you're going to hold it because you count out loud one, one thousand, two, one thousand, three, one thousand.
06:13Okay, you can stop.
06:14Just do me a favor and just hang out really quick.
06:15Here's a minute back.
06:16I just gotta go talk to him for a minute.
06:17Okay.
06:18Okay.
06:19Okay.
06:20Okay.
06:21Okay.
06:22Okay.
06:23Okay.
06:24Okay.
06:25Okay.
06:26Okay.
06:27Okay.
06:28Okay.
06:29Okay.
06:30Okay.
06:31Okay.
06:32Okay.
06:33Okay.
06:34Okay.
06:35Okay.
06:36Okay.
06:37All right.
06:38Okay.
06:39Okay.
06:40Okay.
06:41Okay.
06:42Yeah, I saw it, yeah, the nice status.
06:50I didn't really see it in the walking turn, but I definitely saw the nice status.
06:55So, at this point, do you want to be able to be DIY safe since it doesn't really look like
07:04that?
07:05Yeah.
07:06Can you come out here so I don't have to squeeze in there?
07:11Yes.
07:12Okay.
07:13You guys want to hold me up on your court?
07:14Just go.
07:15I thought that was going to be a long time.
07:17Except for those internships.
07:18Have you?
07:19I'm going to take the gate and check out me to find that.
07:34Have you been down with the office for a long time?
07:39Hi, sir.
07:40What's up?
07:41My name's Corporal Best.
07:42I'm the supervisor right now at the Airport Police Department.
07:45So, did you guys have had a few things last night?
07:48I'm in my neighborhood.
07:49We had an ugly hang.
07:50So, my problem is that right now, I'm standing up talking to you, and I don't smell anything
07:55coming off your view.
07:57I can smell a very strong odor of alcohol beverage coming off the bin.
08:01That's a huge issue, regardless in general.
08:04Whether we were standing on the side of the road, like the camera is right next to you,
08:07but it's a bigger issue, because there's probably a hundred million.
08:12It doesn't matter if it's got a point, yeah.
08:14But, the issue is, I can detect it.
08:19And so, obviously, I don't know where you guys are based out of where the hub is,
08:23but with the FST that I just put him through, he did exhibit signs of impairment
08:28on top of the other officer as well.
08:30So, I am going to make a phone call.
08:32I'm a supervisor, but there's a very strong possibility, a very strong probability,
08:37that he's going to be taking a shot at the Retention Center for the willful attack
08:42to operate an aircraft being intoxicated.
08:44So, if you need to start making some roll calls, I wish I was going to start doing that
08:47real quick.
08:48And I was like, I'm going to put into the FST, because it's simply strong signs.
08:55So, I've already told him why I stopped making the phone calls, please.
08:57Yeah, I told him the airlines, too.
08:59And it would be, like, DUI, sort of, the willful attack of operating in the aircraft form.
09:05Yeah, because it's a commercial, you can't have any impairment on a commercial aircraft.
09:08Right?
09:09Just like CDLs, you know, they don't have a perceptive, uh, unhauling.
09:13All right, so, do you have any personal belongings on the plane?
09:18I do.
09:19What do you have on there?
09:20Like, just, like, a go bag and, like, a throw and everything?
09:22Yeah.
09:23Okay.
09:24So, my issue is, is I'm trained in standardized field sobriety, and you've exhibited strong
09:29signs, and even after speaking with your first pilot, like, the issue is, would you
09:33agree to a blood draw to test your blood alcohol content?
09:36No.
09:37Okay, well, the issue is, is when you agreed to the field sobriety, you exhibited the symptoms,
09:41and if you're refusing to a blood draw, that's, that's DUI less safe for the willful intention
09:45to operate in commercial aircrafts.
09:47Seriously?
09:48Yes, sir.
09:49How did I fail?
09:50I got everything.
09:51The signs that you exhibited during those three tests, I'm able to articulate based off
09:55those, and the odor coming off of your person, it's very consistent with DUI.
10:02Okay.
10:04All right.
10:05Well.
10:06Yeah.
10:07So, what do you want me to do?
10:10So, what's going to happen is, if you, if you don't agree to a blood draw, it'll be DUI
10:14less safe, but that's the route that we're going to take, unfortunately, okay?
10:18Okay.
10:19And if I did agree to a blood draw, then what?
10:21I mean, that, that's just, it's a good part of the ongoing investigation.
10:24Right.
10:25It is what it is.
10:26Mm-hmm.
10:27So.
10:28But obviously, I can't coach with it.
10:29You have your right, you said no.
10:30Right.
10:31So, based off that alone, and based off the field sobriety that you...
10:33Even if I gave you blood, then nothing would change.
10:35Okay.
10:36Right.
10:37That, that is your willful choice that you were willing to make, but based off the calls
10:40that we received stating that people down in TSA could smell what smelled like alcohol
10:46coming off of your breath, and they're not trained.
10:48I am trained in odor hall, odor and alcohol.
10:51Okay.
10:52That's fine.
10:53I mean, nothing's going to change your mind.
10:55I didn't even talk to TSA today.
10:58I went to KCM.
10:59That, that, that's operated by TSA.
11:01Right.
11:02Okay.
11:03So, alright, I'll get my stuff, but whatever you got to go.
11:08Okay.
11:09Get all the first officer's information.
11:11No, I can't.
11:12Is it sparkling?
11:13No, it's just sparkling water.
11:14He has sparkling water.
11:15He has sparkling water.
11:16No, I wasn't afraid it was going to be sparkling water.
11:17No, we just ran.
11:18It's quite easier to recycle.
11:19So, um, I don't believe that they're going to allow you to keep all of this at the
11:20jail.
11:21So, um, I don't believe that they're going to allow you to keep all of this at the jail.
11:41So, we're just going to log into our evidence here.
11:44So, that way, once you get bailed out, you come back here, there'll be a property sheet
11:49and everything.
11:50So, you'll have to come back out here.
11:51Then, I'll have this custodian.
11:52We'll sign your luggage back out to go.
11:53Okay?
11:54I guess.
11:55How about my wallet?
11:56Uh, you can keep that.
11:57Do you have your phone as well?
11:58Yeah.
11:59Yeah.
12:00They'll let you keep those, unfortunately, just because it's like big luggage and everything.
12:03They don't let people keep that anymore.
12:04So, you're just staring face away from your wallet.
12:06Okay.
12:07Before you sit down.
12:08All right.
12:09Palms up.
12:10The investigation didn't end there.
12:26Southwest Airlines wanted to conduct their own to confirm whether the pilot was too drunk
12:30to fly.
12:31The officer called his lieutenant, who then contacted higher-ups at Southwest so they could
12:35begin their own investigation.
12:37Hi.
12:38I'm here with Officer Best, and they have him currently detained in the back of his car.
12:46I was trying to explain that we are to be released to us, but I just want to make sure
12:50that they hear that that's what's first happened.
12:54Yes.
12:55When we have, normally, when we have reports from TSA as well, we do get involved because
13:04the FAA and the DOT have regulations that we also have to follow.
13:09Yes, ma'am.
13:10So, if he, we have to also conduct an observation because that will determine his employment with
13:19us.
13:20We normally have to have, when there is an incident reported, we have to have a test done
13:26on him as well.
13:28But first, we do need to conduct, you know, an observation to see if there was any sign
13:35or symptom, a true smell of alcohol.
13:37Does he have any kind of other signs, you know, with his eyes?
13:42Yes.
13:43Usually, our leaders are, they are trained to detect these signs and symptoms.
13:46Yes.
13:47And if there are any of those signs and symptoms, then we would then proceed to, um, to have
13:53testing done.
13:54Okay.
13:55Sorry.
13:56Okay, ma'am.
13:57Sorry to interrupt.
13:58My name is Lieutenant Wilder.
13:59So, you said you have an inspector coming.
14:01Okay.
14:02My problem is that when they, when they come like 30 minutes to an hour, and all this stuff
14:07that my officer just got through, that he was a certified DUI, um, person as well.
14:14But at that time, with alcohol and his test, he failed two of them.
14:19So, we don't guarantee that when your spectra get, when your spectra get there.
14:25Yeah.
14:26So, are you, what is your process right now?
14:30As of right now, um, when, when Officer Best did his DUI steps, he failed two out of three.
14:39And he actually, he can smell the alcohol coming from his person.
14:42The pilot was removed from duty as law enforcement and Southwest Airlines launched separate investigations.
14:47Based on what you've seen in the video, do you think the pilot was impaired?
14:51Or were the trained officers not so trained in this situation?
14:54But he is, so familiar with him.
15:03Now you have the microphone.
15:04The pilot device Rinpoche said.
15:05And she also said.
15:06Which one of the animals has been used to be targeted at the police station.
15:09If you have to touch this person, do you think the pilot device?
15:11That device?
15:12And you cannot trust this problem, even the pilot device that it's Croatia.
15:15However, the pilot device has been Walking edit machine.
15:17The pilot device is going to not��요.
15:19He mentioned it.
15:20What's the conduct of reporting?
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