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My guess is, if the FO had stopped his rant at 10,000ft, he wouldn’t have gotten in trouble. I can’t imagine the company could take action if you do everything right, but call a bunch of managers D-Bags while in cruise.
Indeed. The formula for epic fail was as follows...
1) Infuriate all the company people who would listen to the tape.
2) Kept talking from 10K all the way to the gate, giving everybody he pizzed off in #1 the necessary justification to fire him. Especially since his lack of sterile could readily be construed as a distraction and contributing factor to the incident.
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That said, unfortunately, we have to remember that anything we say in that cockpit could end up getting printed in the papers if something goes wrong.
That's the other thing, your friends and family will read the transcript if there's a serious incident/accident, and if it's unprofessional it will be on the news... maybe even your own episode of air crash investigations.