Originally Posted by cadetdrivr

Just answer YES to the “any” question.

I’ve told this story on APC previously but here it is again as I personally witnessed a new-hire classmate being escorted off the property during indoc because the background check came back right after class started.

He thought his record was clean because a serious driving incident as a youngster had been expunged by the state due to being a first offense and good behavior (it was part of his sentencing). Thus, his printed record from the DMV was spotless.

He made a mistake starting out but clearly learned his lesson, moved on, and had a successful journey up the aviation food chain all the way to UA.

However, 10+ years later it was still in the database of the company that did background checks because they simply scooped up all public records in real time and didn’t expunge data later.

The drama went on for a couple days as flight ops wanted to keep him and UA legal wanted him gone. In the end, legal won.