FILE – A Southwest Airlines jetliner sits at a gate on the C concourse of Denver International Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in Denver. A Southwest Airlines pilot is taking legal action against the business, her union and a previous associate who pleaded guilty in 2015 to removing naked in front of her throughout a flight, Wednesday, Oct. 5,2022 C( AP Photo/David Zalubowski) The Associated Press By TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)– A Southwest Airlines pilot is taking legal action against the business, her union and a previous associate who pleaded guilty in 2015 to dead-bolting the cockpit door throughout a flight and removing naked in front of her. Christine Janning declares that Southwest struck back by grounding her after she reported Michael Haak to the business and the FBI, that it kept him used in spite of a supposed history of sexual misbehavior which supervisors disparaged her in memos. She likewise declares that the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association conspired with the airline company and declined to support her. She is taking legal action against Haak for sexual attack. He pleaded guilty in 2015 to a federal misdemeanor charge of dedicating a salacious, indecent or profane act and was sentenced to probation. Haak’s lawyer, Michael Salnick, stated Wednesday that his customer disrobed just after Janning motivated him to, never ever did anything else which there were no previous occurrences. Southwest stated it supported Janning which it would “intensely safeguard” itself versus the claim. The union did not react to a telephone call looking for remark. Political Cartoons The Associated Press does not typically recognize individuals who state they are victims of sex criminal offenses, however Janning through her lawyer accepted using her name. According to the claim submitted recently in Orange County, Florida, Janning had actually never ever satisfied Haak prior to August 2020, when she was his co-pilot on a flight from Philadelphia to Orlando. She states Haak, a 27- year veteran of the airline company, had actually utilized his seniority rights the previous day to bump another pilot who had actually been set up to command the flight. Janning thinks that’s due to the fact that he saw a lady was the arranged co-pilot. Janning stated that when they reached travelling elevation, Haak informed her this was his last flight and there was something he wished to do prior to retirement. She stated he bolted the door so no flight attendant might get in. He then put the aircraft on auto-pilot, removed off hi
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