{"id":268193,"date":"2025-08-17T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/new-video-arrest-southwest-airlines-pilot-failed-sobriety-test\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:36:31","slug":"new-video-shows-arrest-of-southwest-airlines-pilot-after-failed-sobriety-test-moments-before-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268193","title":{"rendered":"New Video Shows Arrest Of Southwest Airlines Pilot After Failed Sobriety Test Moments Before Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> pilot is feeling the heat after footage emerged of him being pulled out of the cockpit before a flight between Savannah and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"9353\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Chicago<\/span><\/span> Midway. The footage, captured on January 15 but only released on Thursday, August 14, shows that pilot David Paul Allsop was asked to disembark the aircraft after there were suspicions of him being under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunned passengers watch as their pilot is escorted off the plane just moments before takeoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,606,629,17790,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-midway-international-airport","category-pilots","category-savannah-hilton-head-international-airport","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268193\/revisions\/268194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}