[Acute alcoholic intoxication: effects on the nervous system and impact on flight activity]

Recent and not so recent studies on acute poisoning by ethyl alcohol have confirmed that the substance acts directly on the nervous system both at cerebral cortex and subcortical formation level, and on the spinal cord, sense receptors and organs. The results of the various studies reveal the influence of drunkenness on pilots' capacity to fly a plane and on the relationship between this and plane crashes.