Ask yourself what you would have done.
You're a woman having a drink with a senior male colleague. The next thing you know, you're waking up in a bed full of vomit feeling deeply ill and confused. You're half-undressed, but you might have done that yourself. You don't necessarily know if intercourse took place (condom). You have no idea what happened. But you do have a professional responsibility to fulfill, so you force yourself to shower and dress.
Then you find out that you're not flying - another colleague has reported that you and the pilot were seen drinking and that you looked out of it, and that the pilot has admitted to boozing. You fly back as a passenger, feeling sure that this is a serious issue, and that the company will have to investigate what happened. On the journey, the pilot suggests you get your stories straight. Warning bells start to ring.
It's only now - hours after the black-out - that the bruises start to show. It begins to dawn on you that you were sexually assaulted.
So you tell the company what happened, and what you think was done to you. You're not charging the pilot with rape - perhaps because you think it's now too late to gather physical evidence - but you DO expect the company to take your complaint very seriously. You expect them to investigate whether other female crew have had problems with him. You feel that he should not be allowed to abuse other female colleagues. You feel that the company should protect you.
The company puts you on furlough while they look into it. You agree, thinking that the investigation will take a while to conduct.
Time goes by. You go back to work, expecting that something will have been done. Instead, you find that the pilot is still flying and that the whole event has been buried. You've been conned.
Right, so now what do you do?
Report the rape to the police, six months later? You'd need the support of the company to provide whatever evidence they had at the time, and you're now far from convinced you can trust them. You have reason to think they'd support the pilot over you.
Go to the press? You'd probably get sued by the pilot for defamation.
What's left?
Seems to me this is her best option. What would YOU do
The problem is you can just as easily say the same thing from the opposite side! Imagine you are the Captain involved in this, you started to have a few drinks with your FO and things got a bit out of control and the next thing you remember you wake up with a splitting hangover lying in bed with your FO who has vomited everywhere. In shock you get up and go to the bathroom to clean yourself up trying to remember is you had intercourse with this woman.
Another airline employee reports that you have both been drinking heavily and you are removed from duty and paced home, during the flight you rather awkwardly raise the nights events with your FO and suggest that you should try and figure out what happened so your stories match,,,,,,,, she seems to be acting weirdly. You get a bollocking from you manager and told to go home and to never do that again, you are returned to normal duties, thankgod they didn’t breath test me you think. Two weeks later you are contacted to be told the FO has said that she would never drink to excess like that and has accused you of not only drugging her but also raping her even though she has no memory of the night, this doesn’t seem right, you don’t even know what a date rape drug is and you have never forced anyone to do anything sexual in your life before. The company says that you can keep flying as there is no evidence of wrong doing at this point, you hope it all blows over as how would you explain this to you wife? Months later your world falls apart when you are named in a lawsuit against the airline and it is now nationally reported front page news about this nightstop! You worry that your marriage and career could be over, you are confused and worried..... what should you do?