Babbitt was arrested on a drunk-driving charge Saturday night . `` Randy Babbitt served as a licensed pilot and maintained qualifications to fly FAA airplanes on official business , '' the FAA said . On Monday he was co-pilot on a government flight from DC to North Carolina . The proficiency flight was scheduled before the arrest , officials said . TL;DR A pilot who crashed his plane in Georgia last week had been flying for years and never failed an instrument rating, according to records released by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Babbitt was arrested on a drunk-driving charge Saturday night . On Monday he was co-pilot on a government flight from DC to North Carolina . The proficiency flight was scheduled before the arrest , officials said . TL;DR A pilot who crashed his plane in Georgia last week had been flying for years and never failed an instrument rating, according to records released by the Federal Aviation Administration.