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 MIAMI (AP) - Two airline pilots who got behind the controls while drunk drew sentences Thursday of 2 1/2 years and five years in prison.
Thomas Cloyd, 47, of Peoria, Ariz., and co-pilot Christopher Hughes, 44, of Leander, Texas, settled into the cockpit of a Phoenix-bound America West jetliner in 2002 after a night of heavy drinking at a sports bar. They were arrested before the plane took off but after it had pushed away from the gate.
They were later fired, and were found guilty June 8 of operating an aircraft while drunk.
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