The guy's position was being subverted within his company, maybe a whispering campaign (hang over from previous industrial unrest... who knows).
Possibly, but the allegation that he was a scab was refuted on another website--a poster said it was confusion of two names.
You don't make it to senior airline Captain by being the kind of kook you are trying to make this guy out to be!
True! What initially gave this story legs. was that given the limited and sketchy details first presented, kookiness, really bad decision making or an out of control ego seemed like possibilities. To think that an airline Captain would suffer from any of those conditions is what many find disturbing. We now have totally opposite accounts and perspectives given by two people claiming to have been on the scene.
Either that or he simply lost his cool over something totally inconsequential and things escalated from there
I don't agree that the threat to the Captain's food or a staff mutiny was inconsequential!Was there a better way to handle the situation? Possibly but maybe not, depending on the specific circumstances. And those we'll probably never know.