An Indonesian budget airline has fired a pilot suspected of trying to fly a plane while he was drunk, and two of its executives are resigning.

印尼一家提供廉价服务的航空公司于日前解雇了一名醉酒仍试图驾驶飞机的飞行员，另有两名高管辞职。

Citilink President Director Albert Burhan announced last Friday that he and the airline's production director would resign over the impropriety.

事发后，连城航空首席执行官艾伯特·布尔汉于上周五宣布，他和另一位负责人将辞职。

Citilink is a subsidiary of national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia.

连城航空是印尼鹰航航空旗下的子公司。

Passengers became suspicious when they heard slurred¹ words and unclear announcements from the cockpit. Some of them left the plane and asked for a replacement² of the pilot they believed to be either drunk or under drug influence.

事发时，机上乘客在听到驾驶舱内含混不清的言辞后开始不安起来，他们认为这个飞行员不是喝醉了就是涉嫌吸毒，部分乘客下机要求更换驾驶员。

Citilink assigned a new pilot to fly the Airbus A320 about an hour behind schedule. The flight had 154 passengers but a number reportedly decided³ to cancel.

随后，连城航空指定了另一名驾驶员完成了本次空客A320的飞行任务。本次航班原本有乘客154名，不过据说很大一部分乘客最终退票了。

The flight was heading from Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, to the capital, Jakarta.

这次航班是从印尼的第二大城市苏腊巴亚（泗水市）飞往首都雅加达的。

Aviation is a main mode of travel in the sprawling⁴ nation of 17,000 islands, and the incident has raised safety concerns.

乘飞机是在这个有着17000个小岛的国家旅行最主要的方式，本次事故引发了人们对飞行安全的担忧。

Footage posted on YouTube showed the pilot appearing to stagger through a metal detector⁵ at a security checkpoint. Security guards picked up his belongings⁶ that were falling on the floor as he seemed out of control.

根据上传到YouTube的视频显示，这名驾驶员踉跄地通过机场安检口的金属探测仪。他看起来不太清醒，安检人员帮忙捡起他落到地上的物品，

"The pilot had committed serious violation⁷ of standard operation procedure that endangered passengers," Burhan said. "We apologize for the discomfort⁸. I have to be responsible for that and therefore I and my production director resign."

布尔汉称：“这名飞行员严重违反了标准作业规范，置乘客安全于不顾，我们为此道歉。我本人也得为此负责，所以我和另一名总监选择辞职。”