Originally Posted by
MD11Fr8Dog
I know of a number of times this has been "waived" by management - I know first hand of a Capt that fell on the ice in ANC then flew to AFW, by the time he got to AFW both wrists were swollen and in pain. One was broken. He jump seated back to ANC the next day with both wrists in splints.
Also, the Capt that got beat up in Paris a few yrs ago while "just walking by a subway station at night" jump seated back to Memphis a few hrs after getting released from the hospital. His arm was in a sling, he had visible sutures and staples on his face and head, one eye was so swollen it looked like half an egg plant and who knows what meds were still in his system. I saw and talked to him myself in CDG ops as I was revised to operate his flight to MEM (we went 18 hrs late as I went fatigue in the field - that's another story

) and he jump seated back on the other MEM flight. An ambulance met that plane in MEM and he was carried off on a gurney.
My question was if YOU as the Captain would be OK with this, not if mgt would waive their own rules. Lots of discussion about not putting your fellow pilot in harms way by flying sick as an active pilot, but what do we do when one of the guys just wants to get home and he's sick.
Everybody wants to be help out, but I'm not so sure its such a great idea.