{"id":408224,"date":"2026-04-18T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-india-pilot-deported-sfo-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:44:08","slug":"blunt-consequences-air-india-pilot-deported-from-san-francisco-following-marijuana-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=408224","title":{"rendered":"Blunt Consequences: Air India Pilot Deported From San Francisco Following Marijuana Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot for Air India has been deported from the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> after he was discovered carrying marijuana in his personal baggage. The pilot, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aviation-deadheading-guide\/\" >who was deadheading<\/a> on a flight to San Francisco, was then found with the illegal substance on arrival. While marijuana is legal in the state of California, the airport remains under federal jurisdiction, meaning that international travelers can face harsh consequences if found with it on their person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-pilot&#8217;s unexpected choice lands him in hot water at San Francisco International Airport.<\/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":[548,396,476,16259,5968,1191,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-deportation","category-drugs","category-san-francisco-international-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408224","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=408224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408225,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408224\/revisions\/408225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}