Glueball: One of our pilots was an FE with Kiwi, and they were not started by Eastern scabs, but by some real former Eastern pilots, maybe also some Pan Am pilots. They each invested large sums of money, depending on from which seat they were to fly.
Guess how the FAA found a way to shutdown a small carrier, showing the public that they were actually supervising the US airline industry, following their very muddied image after the horrific Valuejet tragedy?
Well, supposedly a former military aviator, with no airline experience, got a job as an "FAA Inspector". He found that all of the Kiwi simulator training records had no pre-printed box for windshear training. The records had small checkmarks or notes outside the other printed boxes, which documented that windshear training had been performed for the pilots. But hang on- these notes were not inside of any normal printed boxes. So the FAA found an easy little airline to blame for "fraudulent training records", or some such legalistic charge, while the media and naiive US public were exposed to an easy scapegoat: what did they know? This was what the Man (a former US Navy P-3 pilot) told me. His father was also a Kiwi pilot.
By the way, what is a 'scape' (i.e. scapegoat), other than a chunk of land?
Is this from Anglo-Saxon or Middle English?