Pilot fired in Indonesia after alleged attempt to fly drunk

An Indonesian airline has fired a pilot suspected of trying to fly a plane while he was drunk, and 2 of its executives are resigning. Citilink president director Albert Burhan announced Friday that he and the airline's production director would resign over the impropriety. Citilink is a subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia. Passengers became suspicious when they heard slurred words and unclear announcements from the cockpit. Some of them left the plane and asked for a replacement of the pilot they believed to be either drunk or under drug influence. Citilink assigned a new pilot to fly the Airbus A320 about an hour behind schedule. "The pilot had committed serious violation of standard operation procedure that endangered passengers," Burhan said. <br/>