Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse for AirAsia after flight QZ8510 followed by the news of their aircraft overshooting a Kalibo runway, the airline has started off the new year making headlines again, but this time because of a pilot testing positive for morphine.
The President Director of AirAsia Indonesia says that the drug test results revealing a pilot tested positive for morphine are in doubt since this pilot had just come out of the hospital.
The pilot in question had been in the hospital for typhus from December 26 to 29 and is still taking medicine, Sunu Widyatmoko said today at a press conference in East Java, as quoted by Kompas.
AirAsia will have further tests conducted to see if a false positive occurred from the medicine the pilot, who is only identified by initials FI, is taking.
Widyatmoko has said that the previous track record of FI has been clean throughout the nine years that he has worked at AirAsia, reports Kompas.
FI had flown AirAsia QZ7510 from Jakarta to Bali when results of his drug test were released by the Ministry of Transportation. The flight to Denpasar touched down earlier at 8:50 am, but AirAsia officials said he would be sent back to Jakarta at 9:20 am, according to reports.
