Indeed. Following dinner and wine the night before the flight, Cloyd—who had just finished probation for a disorderly conduct conviction after telling police he'd "been drinking a lot"—and Hughes together downed seven 34-oz. glasses and six 16-oz. glasses of beer at a Miami bar. They left just after 5 a.m., then reported for a 10:38 a.m. flight to Phoenix. Airline screeners smelled alcohol on Hughes and alerted the Transportation Security Administration. The pilots, meanwhile, prepared for takeoff with 117 passengers. But as the plane was being towed to the tarmac, police ordered it to return to the gate. Though they didn't take Breathalyzers until 1 p.m., both blew at least twice the .04 allowed by the FAA to fly. Both men were fired and went to rehab, and their lawyers argued they had suffered enough. "He lost his job, he lost his license," attorney James Rubin said of Hughes. "He was made fun of on Leno, Letterman and Howard Stern." Judge Young was unmoved. "You know what the law is," he told the pair. "You know what your obligations were, and you ignored them."
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