"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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as were stories of his certificate having been suspended or
revoked. All those stories were spread by a couple of mean FAA low-lifes

Any source? I've got this from the NTSB:

http://www.avweb.com/other/ntsb9905.html

Here's a paragraph from that:

We had previously received an interim report from H. C. Whitcomb, Jr.,
M.D., pertinent to your alcohol problem. Dr. Whitcomb reported that
"in general averages two to four drinks of either wine or beer/week
when he's traveling." He further stated that there has been no abuse,
(see footnote 1) ...in our letter of October 18, 1995, we specified
that your "continued airman medical certification remains contingent
upon your total abstinence for use of alcohol."

Surely "two to four drinks...per week" can't be considered an "alcohol
problem"! Weve been told many times that two drinks PER DAY are good
for us!


Apparently that was his third plane accident. In 1989 and 1995 he was
involved in accidents while taxi-ing. Don't know if alcohol was involved.


He had plead guilty in 1993 to a DUI, and in 1994 he put his yellow Porsche
into a tree at an blood-alcohol level of .128

For that one, the trial ended in a hung jury, but it is probably somewhere
between '89 and '95 that the FAA told him his ticket was "contingent upon
total abstinence".

Since ""two to four drinks...per week" is not "total abstinence".........