oldchina
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Posts: 111
Lots of bull**** being spread here
This is not about human rights, minority rights, religious rights, racism or even very much about the law. The latter only in the sense that BA has to be prepared to pay up. It's about running a company and minimising the threat to that company's existence.
Even if there's zero hard evidence against this pilot which would stand up in court, BA top management has to judge the risk and act accordingly. If they suspect there's a one in a hundred chance that this guy is a threat, that creates a level of probability of disaster that would never be permitted in an aircraft component. He had to go.
Me
"oldchina" has put this problem into perspective and has done so very succinctly. What it comes down to is "duty of care" on the part of the employing airline to its passengers. And yes that concept has weight and precedent in English law. Do your own research if you find that doesn't come under your definition of basic commonsense.