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- <text id=90TT2931>
- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: Sentenced:Northwest Airlines Pilots
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 99
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- <body>
- <p> SENTENCED. Norman L. Prouse, 51, Robert J. Kirchner, 36,
- Joseph W. Balzer, 35, former Northwest Airlines pilots
- convicted Aug. 20 of flying a Boeing 727 jetliner with 91
- passengers while intoxicated; to 16 months, one year and one
- year, respectively; by a federal district judge; in
- Minneapolis. Prouse admitted downing as many as 15 rum and
- Cokes. The other two reportedly shared at least seven pitchers
- of beer before they flew their plane, safely, from Fargo, N.
- Dak., to Minneapolis.
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- </body>
- </article>
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