{"id":991223,"date":"2023-09-28T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=991223"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:11:24","slug":"married-british-airways-pilot-snorted-cocaine-off-topless-womans-chest-before-he-tried-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/2023\/09\/28\/casado-piloto-de-las-vias-aereas-british-ronco-cocaina-fuera-de-topless-mujer-pecho-antes-de-intentar-volar\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Pilot Snorted Cocaine Off a Topless Woman’s Chest, Missed His Flight, Then Got His Medical Back and Returned to a Cargo Cockpit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Beaton was a married British Airways first officer with a London-bound long-haul to fly out of Johannesburg. The night before, he snorted cocaine off a topless woman’s chest, kept going into the morning, and did not make the report time. BA cancelled the service. He was fired. The Civil Aviation Authority pulled his medical. The pictures did the rest.<\/p>\n

A night of excess<\/h2>\n

Beaton, a married father of one from Devon, took a night off in Johannesburg prior to his planned co-piloting shift. In texts to a friend who works as a flight attendant, he boasted, \u00abI’ve been a very naughty boy,\u00bb according to The Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mike Beaton had a night off in Johannesburg before his scheduled co-piloting duties on a flight to London.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He started at a bar, then moved through a \u00abstandard Joburg setup\u00bb in Melrose Arch: the Grillhouse steakhouse and Tiger’s Milk. He claimed he met two local men, a young Spanish woman, and a Welsh woman on vacation. The group ended up at one of the local men’s apartments after hours of drinking. Cocaine came out on a plate. Beaton wrote that the group launched into \u00aba debate about whose chest is the best to do a bump off.\u00bb He also wrote, \u00abI’ve lost my shirt somewhere.\u00bb<\/p>\n

BA cancelled the London flight<\/h2>\n

The flight attendant he texted alerted the airline. British Airways blocked him from boarding and cancelled the 12-hour Johannesburg-to-Heathrow service, a delay later costed at about \u00a393,000 to \u00a3100,000. A BA spokesperson said there was no risk to passengers because Beaton never sat in the seat. He was suspended, flown home as a passenger, and fired after failing a drug test at the airport. Alcohol was already gone from his system. A Class A drug was not.<\/p>\n

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The consequences of Beaton’s night were a cancelled long-haul and a failed drug test.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An anonymous BA captain told MailOnline that pilot colleagues felt \u00abhugely let down,\u00bb describing intoxication in the cockpit as \u00abbeyond rare\u00bb and \u00abunthinkable.\u00bb The Civil Aviation Authority withdrew his medical certificate, the credential a UK pilot must hold to fly. The CAA said any UK pilot found to have abused drugs or alcohol would have a medical immediately suspended, and that restoration happens only after a rehabilitation program and only when the regulator is \u00abcompletely satisfied.\u00bb<\/p>\n