A married British Airways pilot has been sacked after bragging to colleagues about snorting cocaine off a topless woman during a drug-fuelled orgy – before trying to fly a plane back to the UK.
A shocked co-worker raised the alarm hours before First Officer Mike Beaton was due to co-pilot a flight from South Africa to Britain after he revealed his night of debauchery.
In texts to a stewardess, Beaton claimed he was left ‘so f** I couldn’t even lift my head until gone 2’ after his all-night partying with a Welsh woman, a Spanish woman and local men.
The father-of-one’s behaviour forced the airline to delay the flight for 24 hours while it tried to find a suitable replacement for him, costing BA an estimated £100,000, The Sun reports.
When Beaton, from Devon, returned to Britain he was forced to undergo a drugs test, which reportedly came back positive.
British Airways has insisted there was no risk to passengers and revealed that he no longer works for the company.
The First Officer had been in Johannesburg on downtime, and was set to co-pilot the flight back to London.
But he revealed to a colleague that things had got out of hand after meeting a group of people at a nightclub in the city.
He said that after going back to the hotel for ‘one last one before bed’ things turned raunchy with a ‘bit of snogging, and then we’re somehow all on our way to this dude’s flat’.
He added: ‘Welsh has decided that I should actually be her boyfriend – Spanish has hooked up with one of the two local lads and is having her t**s sucked on their sofa.’
The father then boasted about how the ‘girls are dancing topless’ and he decided to do the same, before one of the local men brought out some cocaine.
‘So then there’s a debate about whose chest is the best to do a bump off,’ he bragged.
‘That’s the story of how I ended up snorting coke off a girl’s t**s in Joburg.’
He claimed the night didn’t end there though, adding that he ‘stayed the night with Welsh, sh** her for ages (I guess the coke played a part) and then was so f** I couldn’t even lift my head until gone 2.’
A source at the airline told The Sun that managers were ‘furious’ when his behaviour was reported to them by his colleagues.
They said the pilot had ‘hoisted himself by his own petard’.
Although there would have been no alcohol in his system on his return to the UK, they added: ‘He will never fly again.’
