A few weeks later the guy that fired him made a little news himself:
Pilot Low on Gas Declares Fuel Emergency After Runway Closure - ABC News
And how do we know this to be true?
Well, it's not exactly a state secret if you've been following the recent Allegiant saga:
Two Allegiant Air executives, the vice president of operations and the director of flight safety, were at the controls of the flight that made an emergency landing last week because it was nearly out of fuel.
Greg Baden, Allegiant's vice president of operations, and Michael Wuerger, director of flight safety, government affairs and quality assurance, were flying Allegiant's Flight 426 from McCarran International Airport to the Fargo, N.D., Hector International Airport on July 23.
A representative of Allegiant confirmed that Baden and Wuerger were flying the plane, adding it is not uncommon for members of operations management to take flights to maintain their pilot status.
Allegiant Air execs at controls of flight that landed with low fuel | Las Vegas Review-Journal
But, the good news is that V-P of Ops Captain Baden was found to have 'exercised sound judgment' after he investigated his own incident
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An in-house investigation of the emergency landing of Allegiant Air Flight 426 in Fargo, N.D., last week has found that the flight crew operated within the bounds of all regulations and "our captain exercised sound judgment in the operation of his aircraft," the airline said Thursday.
Allegiant investigation: Captain exercised sound judgment | Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Allegiant line pilots are members of a union with strong historical ties to organized crime (as in the Mafia). The current president is the first in many years not to be indicted on federal felony charges. Most of the union's leaders in the past six decades have gone to prison. Jackie Presser beat the rap by dying of a heart attack in 1988 and Ron Carey was acquitted in 2001 but I believe every other recent past president has done hard time in federal prison. Yo' Vinnie, youse got a problem wit dat?