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Regardless of the side one chooses, it is important to have the other side's version of events even if we only got the other side's story in one article. Now as far as which side is credible, that is another side.
Yep. We just don't know.
It's a good lesson though to see how the attorneys operate and we saw in the Womens soccer thread just how fired up and mad you can get people with a one sided narrative. Especially if the people reading the article lack any education on the topic of whatever the article is.
Obviously, the airlines and the FFA need to change the regulations and requirements to fit her needs, just as the NYFD lowered the standards of the firefighter test in order to make the force more diverse. s/
"FFA"??
What does the Future Farmers of America have to do with this story?
Is it possible you actually meant the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)?
I rather doubt that the FAA has any regulations or requirements regarding employer standards. They license pilots and mechanics. Employers set their own requirements.
What if there are no other openings on the plane that works for her?
She was hired to fly a specific airplane. She couldn't do it. A job is not a right.
We don't know the full details of her termination. Maybe she made a scene? Sounds like there is more to the story based on her description of her departure.
The issue is she was terminated instead of being transferred to another plane she could fly, like the three males were who were too tall.
I am a pilot. Been flying for 30+ years.
I would not fly with this person, not because she is female but because she is vertically challenged. During engine out operations, the ability to fully depress the opposite rudder pedal is imperative for safe single engine operation. She should fly aircraft that has the control wheel protruding from the instrument panel and not an aircraft with a yoke attached to the floor. A short person could have issues getting around the column.
She should intellectually realize this. The liability attached to her is too high.
No, it’s not. If the regulations specify the same penalties (unfit to fly a certain plane) based on what is too short and too tall then they are no different. She should have been transferred back to the planes she had been flying just like the too tall men.
I wonder if maybe they were planning on retiring the plane she used to fly? That could be why she was transferred to begin with.
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