An Idaho pilot who had a few too many wine coolers or Mike’s Hard Strawberry or something before he got behind the throttle of his SS-7 Super Sport single engine plane last November and then subsequently crashed it onto a local road was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in the clink, two years probation, and $50,730 in restitution to be paid in full by March 2028, the Idaho Statesman reports.
Well it’s not specified what 61 year-old Michael Verzwyvelt drank but “wine coolers or Mike’s Hard Strawberry” sounded funny. He blew a 0.213 BAC after the crash onto North Orchard Street in Twin Falls that injured himself and a passenger, that number closer to three times the legal limit for driving than just twice. In any event, and as mentioned, he was not driving but flying a plane, and in Idaho it’s illegal to operate an aircraft within eight hours of drinking any alcoholic beverage, or while having a BAC at or over 0.04… So really Verzwyvelt was at flying at roughly 5.3 times the legal limit.