New York, NY – A drunken passenger on board an overnight JetBlue flight from Portland to New York on Wednesday has been dismissed from the U.S. Ski Team’s development group after he urinated on a fellow passenger.

Robert “Sandy” Vietze, 18, of Warren, Vt., reportedly told police that he had consumed eight alcoholic drinks before mistaking a sleeping 11-year-old girl for the airliner’s lavatory. He was returning to Vermont from a U.S. Ski Team training camp at Timberline ski area on Oregon’s Mount Hood.

Vietze was earlier named to the 2012 U.S. Development Team thanks to a handful of FIS race podiums in 2011, including a second in downhill at the junior nationals held at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, and a second place in slalom during an NCAA race held at Middlebury Snow Bowl in Vermont. He was a member of the 2008 U.S. delegation that raced at the Whistler Cup in British Columbia, Canada. U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association officials, however, confirmed on Friday that Vietze has been dismissed from the team for conduct violations. His profile has been removed from the websites of  both the team and the Green Mountain Valley School, a prestigious ski and snowboard academy in Warren, Vt., from which Vietz recently graduated.

The girl’s father, reportedly a Stage 4 cancer patient, was in the lavatory with his other child when the incident occurred and emerged to find Vietz in the act. Flight crews are said to have had to separate the two. Port Authority Police in New York detained Vietz but according to a police spokesperson, federal prosecutors declined to file charges after the victim’s father refused to allow his daughter to speak to police. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s office, however, indicates that the case is still pending.