A veteran United Airlines flight attendant was 10 times the legal limit after chugging multiple mini vodka bottles to help her “calm down.”
Disgraced attendant Margit Lake, 56, of California, has admitted boozing on a 10-hour overnight trans-Atlantic route from San Francisco to London on Oct. 17, according to the Sun.
She was in such a bad way on arrival that she had to be treated by first responders and taken to a nearby hospital, a UK court heard last week.
Tests showed her blood alcohol level was 216 mg — more than 10 times the 20 mg limit to work on an aircraft, prosecutors alleged.
Her boozy mid-flight antics were an “obvious risk to herself and other passengers,” prosecutor Beena Makwana told Uxbridge magistrates’ court.
Lake admitted to drinking and resigned from her job of 26 years.
“She deeply regrets what happened,” said her attorney, Ben Lansbury.
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“She had the alcohol because she needed to calm down,” Lansbury said, blaming it on unspecified “grief” and “isolation.”
Lake admitted a charge of performing an aviation function while drunk and faced a maximum penalty of two years in prison.
However, she was instead freed from jail and sentenced to a $2,000 fine.
United Airlines declined to comment when reached by The Post.
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