A Magnicharters Boeing 737 captain was furious over unpaid wages, so he locked himself in the cockpit and “hijacked” the plane.
This isn’t the way to address frustration with your employer
What you’re supposed to do is send a polite email once per year, wait until the business goes bankrupt, watch the boss make off with millions, and never get any of your back-pay.
How is anyone expected to survive 5 months without pay? The flight charts are absolutely a safety critical item, and making pilots buy them without pay should be criminal. If an airline can’t operate safely, then they shouldn’t operate.
The pilot put no-one in danger by doing this.
Speak to HR duh. Open door policy bruh. Open DOOOR!
The guy locked himself in the cockpit of a standing plane after, as reported, 5 months of un- or underpaid labor with some flight neccessities being paid by himself. No one was in any danger, and only employer is to blame there. Although the information comes from the side of the pilot alone and is questionable, the stance of the blog writer is obviously pro-corporate as they compare this to hijacking, like real hijacking in the air, and not a comparatively harmless stake pilot actually did.
Much more effective to demand back wages when you’re circling the airline HQ building with the CEO onboard.
I’m a safe playa and am after peaceful agreements avoiding possible charges, but if it doesn’t work one can go full San Andreas and ride the whole directors’ board on a highway strapped to a moving aircraft ladder. Oh no, there is a low bridge nearby. It’s so, so unfair that they are fixed in a hierarchical order and the first in command are now directly endangered :(
Some reports suggest that he had just learned that he was being dismissed by the airline, so that’s why he took action this time.
And the justice system in Mexico would be about as useful to him as the justice system in the US is these days.
Guile Theme for the pilot, and something that rhymes with Guile Theme for the corrupt corporate psychopaths… guil tine, guyo thein, guilothene, guillotine? I don’t know.
Anyone resenting this man is remarkably off-target or trolling. Obviously in a perfect world this is not the ideal method of conflict resolution. Sadly our world is far from perfect. Five months of unpaid wages is incredibly distressing because it is a form of psychological abuse. In that light he behaved exemplary, a calculated peaceful protest. He’s not a danger to anyone except for the profit margins of his decrepit bosses.
“We definitely need to arrest more people who have worked for months without pay for refusing to continue to work without pay. That’ll show them!” ―Apt comment on a mirror article, Pilot Of Cancun Flight Locks Himself In Cockpit Over 5 Months Of Unpaid Wages—Triggers Hijacking Response
I sure picked a great time to try and get into becoming a pilot.😭
