Yonosoy. Yes, he is one of us. Yes, he has our support. However, flying the extra distance/time with a major malfunction is a BAD decision.
That is your half-informed opinion. Which is great. Maybe you're right.
There was no bent metal and no singed hairs.
We all have bad days, and we're all liable to make a potentially subpar decision once in a while. If, god forbids, that ever happens to you, the emasculating sh*tstorm you'll weather from your superior will be enough to make you feel like crap without having all of your colleagues armchair-quarterbacking your decision and dissing you out on the internet.
Unless you're the sorry guy in management whose job it is to tell his fellow pilots 'shudda cudda wudda' 3 days after the facts, why don't we show support for a friend, imagining it could happen to any of us one day.
Or are you cocky enough that you think you'll never make a bad decision?
Try and refrain from putting a colleague to the sword.
