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Cocktails in the cockpit; FLYING.


A DRUNK pilot had to be guided in to land by a rescue helicopter after asking the control tower: "Where the bloody hell have you hidden yourself?" The amateur, 65, already sloshed sloshed  
adj. Slang
Intoxicated; drunk.


sloshed
Adjective

Slang, chiefly Brit & Austral drunk

Adj. 1.
 at take-off, downed cocktails in the skies and got lost. Controllers scrambled a helicopter when he started singing and joking on his light aircraft's radio over east Germany East Germany: see Germany. .

After he landed, police caught him when he drove off in his car. He was four times the limit and has lost his licences to drive and fly.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Sep 1, 2009
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