Aluminium shuffler For those hypocrites who criticise the captain, remember the captain can defy the management in the interest of safety but will be sacked for any other refusal of orders. I would ask you where the breach of safety was in returning to stand, versus the breach of taking a volatile situation by a powerful lunatic into the air.
The captain was indeed between a rock and a hard place, and given such a scenario could only play out one way in the media and with only one result at the end of that, I think he did the right thing, despite my instincts that he should have over-ruled the VP. He played the long game rather than doing the initially morally correct thing of getting stuck-in himself. Consequently, he keeps his job to fight another day, the purser gets reinstated and the VP is fired. That's a win.
You got it absolutely right!
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