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Old 05-19-2026 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Sliceback
Or taking burnt out light bulbs from home and taking the working light bulbs from the hotel rooms. Guy was going to spend 20+ years as a Big 3 w/b Captain...until stealing from the company caught up with him. How'd the company figure something was up? Suddenly all the FO's started putting him on his do not pair list. LIght bulb theft was the least of his worries. Rich father so hardship upbringing wasn't an excuse.
What the heck was he stealing? I never really saw anything at an airline had that I would even want to steal.
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Old 05-19-2026 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Godzilla
What the heck was he stealing? I never really saw anything at an airline had that I would even want to steal.
Flight time. Fraudulent out/in times = $$$. That's real dollars, plenty of people steal money.
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Old 05-20-2026 | 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Godzilla
What the heck was he stealing? I never really saw anything at an airline had that I would even want to steal.
Originally Posted by Sliceback
Flight time. Fraudulent out/in times = $$$. That's real dollars, plenty of people steal money.
Back in the day you manually reported OOOI times on VHF. That could be why FO's were bidding avoid, they might be in the blast radius of that since they get the same credit as the CA.
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Old Yesterday | 02:17 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Back in the day you manually reported OOOI times on VHF. That could be why FO's were bidding avoid, they might be in the blast radius of that since they get the same credit as the CA.
life was better before FOQA… wasn't it?
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