When Captain Lyle Prouse stepped into the cockpit of Northwest Flight 650 on March 8, 1990, he was carrying more than 58 passengers—he was carrying a blood alcohol content of 0.13 percent, more than triple the legal limit for pilots. His arrest that morning made headlines as the first commercial airline pilot convicted of flying while intoxicated, seemingly ending his career forever. Yet five years later, Prouse was back in the cockpit, eventually retiring honorably as a 747 captain.