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**A US pilot has pleaded guilty to being over the alcohol limit while in charge of an aircraft.**Erwin Washington, 51, from Lakewood, Colorado, was arrested in November on a flight due to leave Heathrow Airport.
He admitted a charge of “being aviation staff performing an aviation function whilst exceeding the proscribed alcohol limit”.
The United Airlines pilot will be sentenced on 5 February at Uxbridge Magistrates Court in west London.