IIRC TFA says some pilots are seeking whistleblower protection now.
The helicopter pilot community is so small they were afraid of getting blacklisted.
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The company is gonna get sued out of existence. The NYT report made them look super shady.
The helicopter pilot community is so small they were afraid of getting blacklisted.
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The company is gonna get sued out of existence. The NYT report made them look super shady.
If the company used intimidation tactics, that may be a crime, a corrupt intent to subvert compliance with FARs as it pertains to safety. If so, I sincerely hope a prosecutor is assigned who is skeptical of blaming only pilots, and will recognize intimidation as significant distortion on pilot judgment and authority. I don't like the idea of the corporate veil protecting a CEO who overrides the judgment of pilots let alone also uses economic coercion by threatening their career - so if that's really what happens I hope he's criminally prosecuted.
But as a pilot, I still can't completely hold pilots blameless when they saw enough safety concerns to say something about it to the company, witnessed insufficient remediation, did nothing else, and now people are dead.