Female pilot sues Southwest Airlines after colleague dead-bolted door to the cockpit and stripped NAKED in front of her - and claims the company grounded her after she reported the incident

UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/05/2022 | Vanessa Serna and AP

[DFG]

A Southwest Airlines pilot is suing the company, her union and a former colleague who pleaded guilty last year to dead-bolting the cockpit door during a flight and stripping naked in front of her.

Christine Janning alleges that Southwest retaliated by grounding her after she reported co-pilot Michael Haak to the company and the FBI. Janning's suit also notes that Haak remained employed despite an alleged history of sexual misconduct and that managers disparaged her in memos.

Janning also alleges that the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association conspired with the airline and refused to support her after the August 10, 2020 incident. She is suing Haak for sexual assault.

'On the Flight, Cpt. Haak announced to Ms. Janning that this was to be his final flight, and that there was "something [he] wanted to do before retiring,' the lawsuit reads. 'Cpt. Haak then bolt-locked the cockpit door, in violation of Federal Law, such that only he and Ms. Janning were inside and such that no one else could enter.

[al baby]

I think he wanted in her cockpit just sayin

[caww]

Here's the Pilot - Christine Janning reported her co-pilot Michael Haak for getting undressed in front of her and performing lewd acts in 2020

[TexasGator]

“He should have been immediately terminated.”

You didn’t read the article!

[dfwgator]

[deport]

Where was the copilot?

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Getting undressed according to the article.

[caww]

Prosecutors specified that the “acts began, continued and were completed while the aircraft was in flight.”

[caww]

Haak was no longer an employee and that he had “departed the company” in 2020.

Southwest says the airline did not learn about the accused indecent exposure incident until after Haak had already left the company.

[SaveFerris]

OK

You win the thread

[grey_whiskers]

In before the mile-high-club jokes, I hope.

[SaveFerris]

You got it before I did lol

[grey_whiskers]

🤣

[03A3]

Southworst: “gays, grannies and grandes.”

[lodi90]

Thanks. Helps if I read the article! Still a very strange story.

[Exit148]

I’d point and laugh.

[Codeflier]

Well that may be, but the minute he disrobed his fate was sealed. Very stupid thing to do, no matter what was said.

[dfwgator]

I’d point and laugh.

"What do you use for a jockstrap, kid? A peanut shell and a rubber band?"

[Pikachu_Dad]

“It started as a consensual prank between me and the other pilot. I never imagined it would turn into this in a thousand years,” Haak said during a remote hearing.”

Hmmm

[Pikachu_Dad]

He most probably ‘pled guilty’ to gain a minor slap on the wrist. As opposed to what they would have done had he claimed ‘not guilty’ and been railroaded.

“Michael Haak, 60, apologized and expressed remorse for his actions before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson sentenced him to one year of unsupervised probation and a $5,000 fine.”

[sport]

Me too.

[Col Frank Slade]

Did he pull back hard on the stick prior to takeoff?