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Police claim an unconscious airline pilot was drunk in the cockpit of his Boeing jet

On Saturday, the Captain of Sunwing Airlines Flight 595 was found unconscious in the cockpit of his Boeing 737-800.

Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737-800.

The Captain — 37 year-old

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The aircraft, bound for Cancun, Mexico, was parked at Calgary International Airport when gate agents and members of the flight crew found Capt. Gronych behaving oddly before passing out in the cockpit.

According to Calgary Police, initial tests found the Captain, a native of Slovakia,

In a statement posted to Facebook, Sunwing Airlines, a Canadian low-cost, leisure carrier, apologized to customers and praised the crew for their "

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