Originally Posted by
Fishfreighter
The most damning item in the whole show was the Colgan Director of Ops, Dean Badanavais standing up for the Captain who falsified the weight and balance. If you get caught with your pants down, you don't tell the FAA this was one of your best Captains, you tell them you fired his butt. It was very illustrative of the attitude of management.
Even more disgusting was then going after the F/O who had the cojones to blow the whistle on the idiot.
No, the company did not go after the FO for "whistle blowing." You think any normal human/pilot who invested as much time energy and money into becoming a pilot would not sue the hell out of a company (and win) if he got fired only for whistle blowing? He was ALREADY about to get fired for being a **** poor pilot and for sexual harassment. He KNEW about the weight and balance issue, NEVER objected to it, WENT ALONG with it. What does that say about his claims that he was concerned for safety. What does that say about him as an FO. He only brought it up after the fact when he decided to use it against the captain.