Six pilots–all previously employed by the former fractional operator Raytheon Travel Air of Wichita before its March 21 merger with Flight Options of Cleveland–have filed two separate lawsuits alleging wrongful discharge from their jobs.
In Eric Miller v. Raytheon Aircraft Co. (RAC), Raytheon Travel Air (RTA) and Flight Options LLC, filed in the district court of Galveston, Texas, on July 21, Miller claims “he was discharged for the sole reason that he refused to perform illegal acts while operating aircraft for RTA.” The lawsuit contends that Miller “was repeatedly requested to file false MIRs [mechanical irregularity reports] and/or to change reports to modify the descriptions of certain critical maintenance items so that the aircraft could be operated until a scheduled maintenance period, thereby allowing the aircraft to be repaired without cancellation of the flight. These requests either originated at or were condoned by the very highest levels of the company and would have resulted in severe criminal penalties to the plaintiff had the plaintiff performed any of these illegal acts and been prosecuted for doing so. When the defendants fully understood that the plaintiff would not fly broken aircraft, he was singled out for termination.”
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