Thistleblowing
I feel for Mr Coombes from first hand experience as a whistleblower. Legal action is very unpleasant and traumatic even when you are eventualy proved right. It lasts for YEARS. Some employers will stoop to anything. My ex employers evidence (Chief Exec and Dir Flite Ops) being "unbelievable, untruthful" and "not genuine" has now been formally established in an industrial tribunal. I will not comment further as there is other legal action underway against my ex employers. I hope Mr Coombes has the fortitude and courage to fight through the system and obtain redress appropriate for the circumstances. Even with total victory an individual is still worse off financialy as well as being drained emotionally. A good specialist solicitor is priceless as is counselling. If the world was just ... . Employers taking shortcuts with safety must never be tolerated. I am pleased that someone else put the interests of others ahead of their own career. I would like to think that everyone would put the lives of passengers and staff above their own interests. Sadly I know not everyone thinks this way and even very senior pilots will put 'bonus/profitability' ahead of safety and the truth.
Thank God for BALPA.
Andy S