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A pilot who was drunk in the cockpit has been arrested shortly before take-off in Canada.
Two hours after his arrest, the 37-year-old man was found to have more than three times the legal limit of alcohol in his body.
His plane, part of the Sunwing budget airline, later left Calgary for Cancun, Mexico, with a different pilot. There were more than 100 people on board.
The incident happened at 07:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday.
Airline staff noticed the pilot behaving strangely, and then he passed out. They alerted the authorities and the man was escorted from the cockpit.
He has now been charged with being in charge of an aircraft while being impaired.
Calgary police have named him as Miroslav Gronych, 37, a Slovak national.
Police spokesman Paul Stacey said: "It had all the potential for a disaster but I'll tell you this much - the likelihood of a pilot on a major airline like this actually being able to take off when they're impaired like that is pretty slim, because there's a lot of checks and balances.
"There's the other flight crew and there's gate crew and they're all about safety.
"So, I'm not surprised that he got caught before (the plane) left the terminal."
But Mr Stacey said: "He won't be flying anytime soon."
The legendary American swindler Mel Weinberg once told me: "No-one wants to admit they've been conned - that's why they keep coming back for more."
We keep putting faith in the conman, he said, because the alternative is to recognise we've been done.
The millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump will soon find out if they were right to believe his campaign promises - or if they have fallen for the greatest mind trick in political history.
Plenty of people - including high profile Republicans like Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio - accused the billionaire of being a conman during the presidential campaign.
And since he won, his big-slogan threats and promises - "lock her up", 'build the wall", "drain the swamp" - have either been disavowed or significantly fudged.
On that "swamp" thing, supposedly exposing and removing the powerful special interests who riddle Washington bureaucracy, even top advisers admit it will not be a priority.
Trump will have to walk the walk very soon and the problems that reach the Oval Office are usually the most intractable ones.
All the while Trump loads his cabinet with billionaires, businessmen, Wall Street high-fliers and political veterans.
No sign of even a representative from the angry, white, working class who propelled Trump to the White House. Not even a token one.
Those voters remain, it seems, convinced that Trump was the right choice and they dismiss media punditry and the significance of his somewhat unpredictable pre-inauguration tweets.
But Trump will have to walk the walk very soon and the problems that reach the Oval Office are usually the most intractable ones.
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Mel Weinberg - the inspiration for the movie American Hustle - was selling dodgy loans. Trump will be leading the free world.
How long will it be before the leaders of Russia or North Korea try to test him? How will he react?
Roger Mansfield, a small business owner from Pennsylvania, told the Associated Press recently: "We have to trust him. He's going to be our president.
"Wishing him to fail would be like getting on an airliner and hoping the two pilots don't know what they're doing. My gut says he will do the right thing."
Ask Americans for their predictions for the Trump presidency and you will hear everything from a Reagan-style "Morning in America" to their next president getting bored or impeached.
Or what the Beverly Hills resident told the Los Angeles Times: "He's the person who is going to make America glorious again. I love him.
"I believe that he is going to be like Richard Nixon."
America has never forgotten how his presidency ended.
Sky Views is a series of comment pieces by Sky News editors and correspondents, published every morning.
Image copyright Mark King/Sunwing Airlines 
