![]() ![]() ![]() Southwest denied Janning's allegations, saying “we immediately supported (Janning) by cooperating with the appropriate outside agencies as they investigated.” She said a Southwest manager sent a memo to more than 25 employees “that made baseless allegations” about her flying competency. She also said that on the day she was grounded, the airline stranded her in Denver and the FBI had to book her a United Airlines flight so she could return home to Florida. She was then required to take “unnecessary” flight simulator training before she could work again. Janning said as retaliation for the FBI report, she was grounded for more than three months, costing her part of her salary. She alleges Southwest had sent Haak to a Montreal sexual harassment counseling center after a 2008 incident involving a flight attendant. Janning then went to the FBI, who charged Haak. Janning says she was soon told that because Haak had retired, the airline's investigation was closed. ![]() She said she asked the investigator not to inform her boss, but she did. She said she waited because her boss had disparaged her to a male colleague previously. Meanwhile, Janning didn’t report the incident to a Southwest employee relations investigator until three months later. Janning said in the lawsuit that she was “horrified,” but she kept flying the plane while taking photos “to create a record.” The plane landed safely.Īnd that wasn’t Haak’s final flight - he flew for three more weeks. Janning's attorney, Frank Podesta, denied she encouraged Haak or made any advances. He said Haak rejected those and adamantly denied a lewd act occurred.Īt his sentencing hearing last year, Haak called the incident “a consensual prank” that got out of hand. When he replied he wanted to fly naked, she told him to go ahead and then made sexual advances after he disrobed, Salnick said. Salnick said it was Janning who asked Haak if there was anything he wanted to do before retiring. He then put the plane on autopilot, stripped off his clothes, began watching pornography on his laptop and committed a lewd act for 30 minutes while taking photos and videos of himself. She said he bolted the door so no flight attendant could enter. Prosecuting lawyer Michael Cunningham blasted the pilot, saying that he “had a duty to comport himself in a much more responsible manner”.Janning said that when they reached cruising altitude, Haak told her this was his final flight and there was something he wanted to do before retirement. “As the plane continued its flight, Haak further engaged in inappropriate conduct in the cockpit, as the first officer continued to perform her duties as an assigned aircrew member,” federal prosecutors said in a statement. When the plane reached cruising altitude, Haak got out of the pilot’s seat and “disrobed” and began watching pornographic material on a laptop computer in the cockpit, prosecutors said. The incident occurred on a flight that he was piloting from Philadelphia to Orlando on August 10, 2020, federal prosecutors said. I never imagined it would turn into this in a thousand years,” Haak said during the virtual hearing. “It started as a consensual prank between me and the other pilot. Mark Coulson ordered him to serve probation and pay a $5000 ($A6500) fine. Southwest Airlines pilot Michael Haak, 60, apologised before Judge J. A pilot who watched porn and exposed his genitalia to a female officer on a flight to Florida has been sentenced to one year of probation.
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