An Aer Lingus pilot has told the Workplace Relations Commission that he feared ‘retribution’ from senior airline personnel. Photograph: Evan Treacy/PA WireAn Aer Lingus pilot stripped of command duties after his aircraft failed to pick up a navigation beacon on approach to Dublin Airport in 2023 wrote that he delayed reporting the incident because he feared “retribution” from senior personnel, a tribunal has been told. After passing the expected beacon line, he turned the plane back to intercept the beacon, got the signal, and landed safely, he said. “What I did on the day was what I was supposed to do, and that’s written in the manual,” he said. Mr McCabe agreed when questioned by his barrister, David Byrnes, who appeared instructed by Setanta Solicitors, that there was “no love lost” between himself and Capt Wynne.
