Wells, in a particularly unusual event, was escorted out of the airport by security officials.
Funny how you all center on the MEL whilst I think THIS is the real issue.
Why is a captain escorted out of the airport when he/she refuses to fly with good reason (IMO) aka does what a captain should do???? What about the rest of the crew? How desperate is a company when it puts such stress and pressure on crews to fly aircraft with tech issues? What does it say about safety culture?
I´m just a lowlife executive pilot and got brushed by the 'airliners' as the risky dudes etc. when something happened in my field of aviation and its safety culture is apparently bad, now I can see thats that no different at the airlines...
I sure hope that the FAA fines US Airways real hard for such a behavior.
Cudos to the captain, crew and the second crew as well.
BTW it was:
n this case, she was met by US Airways Corporate Security and escorted out of the airport!
so not the airport security.