Would Mr McCormick, Mr Dolan, Mr Albanese and Mr Mrdak have enough fuzz on their fruit and dare to face people like the Urquhart's and Hare's face to face and look them in the eyes and deliver the same rhetoric, spin, denial and plain bollocks that they tell everybody else?
In the first individual's case, probably no. As part of 'management' in his last organisation, an aggressively-run Asian airline, he helped select over fifty pilots for termination 'for no particular reason' in an attempt to intimidate the rest.
But he let someone else do the actual firing. It's not as if any of them were called into his office and told face to face. (One pilot found out he was jobless after the turnstile wouldn't click over when he reported for his rostered flight. One or two were fired by fax).
For all the taxpayers' dollars spent on DAMP calendars with missing months, regulation re-writing etc I find it difficult to believe that the resources were not there to surveil, stop and arrest Hempel and if necessary to have put in place measures to forcibly detain him and clamp his aircraft.
If it had been any of the rest of us...