B777 fuel leak
787cruiser, if you are referring to the incident a few years ago on a pacific rim carrier I think it was not punishment per se ( for the PIC ) but delays in the findings caused by power play between the line operations and maintenance divisions against the safety division. This led to the extended grounding of the PIC casting aspersions that the company had found fault in his decision. The line operations division which ran the dispatch department and maintenance division were trying to cover their asses; the safety division did not know how to deal with issue when the PIC was clearly right but the other divisions called for his head. The issue was left hanging with the PIC finally cleared to fly without any resolution except for the Boeing letter reminding crew to stick to QRH/ECL procedures and that the fuel leak checklist assumes leak from strut to engine.