{"id":12454,"date":"2023-09-28T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillecelticfestival.com\/?p=12454"},"modified":"2023-09-28T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:59:06","slug":"ba-captain-speaks-of-disgust-over-cocaine-snorting-pilot-mike-beaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillecelticfestival.com\/travel\/ba-captain-speaks-of-disgust-over-cocaine-snorting-pilot-mike-beaton\/","title":{"rendered":"BA captain speaks of disgust over &apos;cocaine-snorting&apos; pilot Mike Beaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>BA captain speaks of disgust at the airline among flight crews over shamed pilot Mike Beaton, who bragged about snorting cocaine off woman&#8217;s breasts<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mike Beaton was sacked after bragging about a sordid night out in Johannesburg<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is a remarkable fall from grace for Beaton, who lives in an idyllic \u00a3750k home\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Flight hacks report reveals the best day of the week to book planes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A pilot at British Airways has spoken of the disgust felt among flight crews at the airline over the behaviour of Mike Beaton.<\/p>\n<p>Beaton, a first officer, was sacked after he bragged to colleagues about snorting cocaine off a woman&#8217;s bare breasts in South Africa before trying to fly a packed plane back to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>A BA captain, speaking anonymously, told MailOnline Travel: &#8216;Talking to pilot colleagues, we feel hugely let down by this individual.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When asked how common it was for a pilot to be affected by alcohol in the cockpit, he replied: &#8216;It&#8217;s beyond rare. Unthinkable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>British Airways has told its staff to report any concerns they have about senior colleagues taking drugs after Beaton&#8217;s wrongdoing, according to The Sun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/28\/12\/75867281-12570869-First_Officer_Mike_Beaton_was_suspended_by_British_Airways_and_l-a-26_1695901879842.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>First Officer Mike Beaton was sacked by British Airways after a night of debauchery in South Africa<\/p>\n<p>Beaton was reported to management at BA after he sent text messages to a stewardess bragging about how he had been &#8216;very, very naughty&#8217; with two women and two men in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-one told how the group &#8216;did shots, polished off a bottle of vodka&#8217;, then how he &#8216;snorted cocaine off a topless woman&#8217;s t***&#8217; and then &#8216;s*****d for ages&#8217; before trying to fly a plane back to London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[I] was so f****d I couldn&#8217;t even lift my head until gone 2,&#8217; Beaton wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It is a remarkable fall from grace for Beaton, who lives in an idyllic \u00a3750,000 home in Devon with his Polish wife and their five-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/28\/12\/75885467-12570869-He_recounted_how_he_ended_up_snorting_coke_off_a_girl_s_t_in_Job-a-27_1695901916490.jpg\" height=\"1158\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/28\/12\/75885469-12570869-The_bragging_text_messages_sent_by_Mr_Beaton_to_a_stewardess_abo-a-28_1695901924737.jpg\" height=\"1105\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The bragging text messages sent by Mr Beaton to a stewardess about his sordid evening in Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p>They run a luxury treehouse retreat business together called Happy Owls, which featured in The Times top 12 treehouse hotels this year.<\/p>\n<p>Beaton&#8217;s mother served as an officer in the RAF and has sat as a magistrate in Peterborough since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>She lives with the disgraced pilot&#8217;s stepfather, an RAF pilot who flew every member of the Royal Family in a career that saw him invested as a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.<\/p>\n<p>Instances of pilots being drunk before taking the controls are extremely rare, as our pilot source stated.<\/p>\n<p>One serious incident involving BA crew took place in 2000, when a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary caught a captain, Chris Salmon, and a first officer, James Sharples, drinking heavily in Barcelona before a flight to Gatwick.<\/p>\n<p>Salmon was alleged to have drunk seven bottles of beer and more than a bottle of wine the night before the flight, reported The Times, while Sharples, it was claimed, drunk &#8216;at least eight pints of beer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Salmon was heard saying &#8216;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve got to take an aircraft back&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>After the expose, The Times notes, Salmon resigned and Sharples was sacked.<\/p>\n<p>British Airways told MailOnline after Beaton was fired: &#8216;Safety is always our top priority. The matter was referred to the CAA and this individual no longer works for us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/travel_news\/article-12570869\/BA-captain-speaks-disgust-airline-flight-crews-shamed-pilot-Mike-Beaton-bragged-snorting-cocaine-womans-breasts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA captain speaks of disgust at the airline among flight crews over shamed pilot Mike Beaton, who bragged about snorting cocaine off woman&#8217;s breasts Mike Beaton was sacked after bragging about a sordid night out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BA captain speaks of disgust over &amp;apos;cocaine-snorting&amp;apos; 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