What are you talking about? The point of my post was that it seems useless in trying to argue with you. You seem like a very pompous person.
I was saying I know him, and the story he gave me had NOTHING to do with Colgan the company. The previous crew didn't write it up (and actually called over the ops frequency to have MX come out and look at it!), he knew about it, but got distracted because of a release issue, and took off. The rest is history.
He called me to ask for advise, I said to bring a lawyer. He didn't, because he was told the FAA was to have a "friendly" meeting (there's an oxymoron). The FAA didn't almost take his ticket because of Colgan, they almost took it because of himself, and the previous knuckle heads. Colgan HAD to side with the FAA. RULES/REGS. were broken!
For the future if/when you upgrade, if the crew that you are swapping with tells you something is wrong with an AC, tell them to put it in the book!!! No matter how it delays, CXs the flight. CYA!!!( that stand for Cover Your...)