cactusbusdvr - "However, for the rest of the story - she depleted the battery doing multiple APU starts, ignoring the start cycle limitations and displaying a lack of systems knowledge. Then she compounded the situation by making two announcements, one on tHe aircraft and one at the gate after the aircraft was deplaned, telling the passengers that US Airways was unsafe and they wanted her to take an unsafe aircraft. Capt. Wells also told the passengers to refuse to board any other US Airways aircraft and to force the company to reaccomodate them on a different carrier. That was when the company had her leave the terminal."
How many starts? Was the source of your information from one of the other pilots in the cockpit, her official reports, or from someone that wasn't there?
What was said in the two announcement? What is your source for the version you heard?
As a guy said in recurrent training - "they start talking about an event, how screwed up it got, how the pilots screwed up...and then I realized they were talking about an event that happened to me and the version they were telling left out significant, and important, details that altered the whole perception of the event. My actions made sense however as told in training it was an example of bumbling pilots. After hearing the real version the instructor realized there were two, similar but ultimately conflicting, versions of what happened."