Ryanair sacks documentary pilot
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Irish budget carrier Ryanair has reportedly sacked, and started legal proceedings against, a long serving pilot with “immediate effect” for having appeared in a channel four documentary criticising the company’s safety policies.
The Dispatches programme ‘Ryanair: Secrets from the Cockpit’ made a series of allegations, including that the carrier deleted blackbox recordings after serious incidents and that pilot’s had to produce written explanations if they took too much fuel with them on journeys.
In a statement the carrier said: “We will not allow a Ryanair employee to defame our safety on national television just three weeks after he confirmed in writing to Ryanair that he had no concerns with safety and no reason to make any confidential safety report to either the IAA (Irish Aviation Authority) or Ryanair.”
UK newspaper The Guardian said that it is not yet known if Goss himself has sought legal advice, however he was due to retire in October after having spent 25 years with the carrier.
Goss was a member of the interim council for the Ryanair Pilot Group – a body that Ryanair itself does not recognise.
“Ryanair rejected the false and defamatory claims made by the Channel 4 Dispatches programme which wrongly impugn and smear Ryanair’s outstanding 29-year safety record based on nothing more than anonymous hearsay claims made by individuals whose identity was concealed, and/or by representatives of pilot unions of Ryanair’s competitor airlines masquerading as a non-Ryanair Pilot Group,” said the company.
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