ALPA offered $1.3M For Abel Silence
Also, I posted this comment on the UK newspaper, hope they have the (&%$*s) to print it.
I flew thirty-one years for airlines. I have a type rating in A330 and 3700 hours in command of A320s. I filed 3 federal lawsuits over the illegal modifications to glass cockpit airliners. See Civil Case 1:08-1600 (RMC) and you will see that I had an active lawsuit (filed September, 2008) at the time of the Air France incident. With 23,000 hours of safe flying I felt compelled to write a chapter on the AF447 incident as Senator Byron Dorgan would not allow ‘whistleblowing’ airline pilots to testify at a Safety Hearing on 10 and 17 June, 2009. Here is the Chapter 9 of our Book 4 that was delivered to ALPA, FBI, FAA, Northwest Airlines and the internet on 17 June, 2009: http://www.captainsherlock.com/Olympic-Debt/Chapter-9.html
The following morning ALPA offered me $1.3M to drop my suit. I do not believe Air France or Airbus are the problem here folks.
Captain Field McConnell
23,000 hours of safety
Aug. 13, 2011