Comair Pilot Sues on Safety, wins job back

[saxman]

All I can say is way to stick it to management, especially for safety reasons.

A federal Labor Department administrative judge has reinstated a Comair pilot fired for refusing to fly what he believed was an unsafe airplane in an unusual whistleblower lawsuit.

The successful suit by pilot Shane Sitts of Batavia is one of the only such suits ever to reach this level at Comair, and highlights the everyday tension between a pilot's authority to determine whether a plane is airworthy and an airline's mandate to keep passengers moving.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090814/BIZ01/908150330

 

[surreal1221]

Excellent precedence.

 

[Brian Z]

Is it really sticking it to management? I see it as the courts finally upholding the PICs authority. The company had to pay for not respecting that.

 

[kellwolf]

Sad thing is, he'll probably get his job back and the downgrade letter in the same day.....