Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Especially considering in this world where a media writes that the FO sent a text in EWR, and then later that aircraft crashed. That is fact, in regards to the Colgan crew.
That's what I was thinking. Granted, it's an extreme case, but ACARs messages are recorded/saved.
Along the lines of what you said regarding Colgan, long after the crash and the general media started to forgot about it, some outlets made note of the FACT that the FO talked about being sick, but was worried about pay/punitive action, etc on the CVR.
In a bizarre coincidence, my company changed their sick call policy to where a Dr.'s note on a sick call WON'T count towards the allotted "occurrences" in a rolling 12 month period.