He did not flat out refuse because he had no problem with the whole situation. How can you whistle-blow when, as a fellow crewmember, your actions clearly are guilty as well? Easy, because he was losing his job anyway.

I would NEVER ask a crew to do that for me either. Commuting for 3 years - I never did and I never would. However, it happens. There are crews that do it and crews that don't. There is absolutely nothing wrong with not doing it, no one has any obligation to help a jumpseater and the legal risks involved are great. However, if a crew was willing to do it (and sometimes you won't even know about it) you can't convince me that creating 2 kids or increasing taxi 100 more pounds on paper to accomodate 1 more adult is going to create a safety problems on an airliner whereas even small weight margins make a big difference on a C-172.

Anyway I'm not arguing whether a crew should or should not accommodate jumpseaters. My point was this Coats guy was clearly never concerned about safety like he pretends he was, and he used this opportunity to get a fellow pilot basically banned from 121 for life. Then on top of it he got to come out on national TV and brag about it. The documentary could have used so many other examples yet they wasted 5 minutes on this lowest of lowlifes.