The pilot on board an airliner from Kazan to Moscow was sober, Aeroflot reported,. He passed medical examination in the Republican narcological dispensary of the Ministry of Health of Tatarstan, and no signs of intoxication were revealed, the company said.. Earlier, the telegram channel Mash said that in Kazan for six hours, detained Aeroflot aircraft due to the condition of the pilot.
Allegedly, "Airbus 320" was flying 1279 and was due to fly to Sheremetyevo on March 17 at 07:00. On board there were 80 people, among them two children. During the passage of the medical crew, it became clear that the 42-year-old commander of the aircraft Vadim Kashin was drunk. At the same time, Mash continued, the pilot persuaded the doctors to give him permission to take off, promising that everything would be "normal".
The paramedic wrote an act of medical examination twice, as the first copy of Kashin snatched from her and tore.