A flight attendant was taken for treatment after drinking more than ten times the alcohol limit of vodka during a transatlantic flight.

Margit Lake downed several mini bottles of the distilled beverage on board her overnight United Airlines flight on October 17.

The flight attendant said she had sneaked the alcohol on board to ‘calm her nerves’ while looking after passengers travelling from San Francisco to the UK.

But by the time the 56-year-old touched down at London Heathrow, her blood alcohol level was found to be 216 milligrams per 100 millilitres – well over the limit of 26 milligrams cabin crew are permitted while in the air.

Lake resigned from America’s fourth largest carrier days after the flight, having served 26 years with the airline, the Sun reported.

A court heard that p

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