Stewardess was ten times the legal limit to fly

A United Airlines stewardess was ten times the legal limit to fly after downing a vast quantity of vodka on a transatlantic jet, a court heard. Margit Lake, 56, sneaked ‘multiple miniature bottles’ of the spirit onto the ten hour flight from San Francisco to Heathrow on 17 October. The Californian air stewardess had to be taken to hospital after the Boeing 777 landed at Heathrow. Lake had low blood pressure and paramedics ‘smelt alcohol on her breath,’ Uxbridge Magistrates’…