Article indicated that the flight was cancelled the previous day due to poor condition of the plane (including the engines). It is unclear if the pilot refused to file because of safety issues, or for political ones.
How could the pilot be arrested? I mean he surely could be fired, but arrested? I wonder what the charge was, maybe financially supporting terrorists?
The airlines should know better than hiring jihadist sympathizers as pilots.They are security risks.
You’ve got the wrong TITLE line for the article ... perhaps the Admin can correct the WRONG INFORMATION here ...
It doesn’t say he was arrested ...
A pilot who refused to fly his scheduled United Airlines flight to Israel was eventually removed from the cockpit – with 300 passengers stuck on the plane for hours while airline officials scrambled to find another pilot.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182185#.U6v3kNq9KSO
TI thought a cockpit breach was unpossible (I love that word) but I guess the pilot did not choose to barricade himself in the cockpit.
No name given. Wanna bet it’s a bearded savage name? That should have been the first clue! Never ask a bearded savage to fly a plane into Israel!
Give him a tube of Vaseline and drop him off in Syria.
“...The flight was delayed following a maintenance issue. The aircraft was then swapped for another and as a result of the ongoing delay the flight crew exceeded their legally permitted duty hours. “
The aircraft in bad condition was swapped...and then the unnamed pilot refuses to fly?
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This ticks me off more than anything. How DARE the airline treat the passengers as if they were cargo to be stored on the plane. I would have gotten off and DARED them to call security. If they did, I would slap a unlawful detainment lawsuit on them so fast it would make their heads spin.
Let me guess. His first or middle name is Muhammad?
The story indicates the crew was going to run out of duty time. The federal regulations put the onus on the crewmember to not accept an assignment that will put him/her over the max permissable limit. The only limit you can exceed is flight time IF it is beyond your control, but not duty time... Sounds like airline dispatch screwed up...
BS story. The pilot was NOT arrested for refusing to fly. There is no such law that forces a pilot to fly. In fact, there is a law that says a pilot does not have to fly.