Air Canada Pilots Can't Stop Bringing Porn Into the Cockpit
According to an internal Air Canada memo leaked to CBC, officials at the airline had to implore its pilots—again—that they shouldn't be bringing their porn into the cockpit with them. "I am disappointed to have to raise this issue once again but unfortunately we have some people that have yet to understand the message," Rod Graham, Air Canada's chief pilot and director of fleet operations and training, writes in the memo.
The memo was sent out last year—the Daily Mail reports that five months later, in February of this year, more porn was found. "The material in question consisted almost entirely of inappropriate business cards and was confined mainly to one aircraft type and route, our EmbraerE-90s operating to Las Vegas," Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick insists to CBC.
And although Transport Canada, the government agency that regulates the country's airlines, claims that porn in the cockpit poses no safety threat, a report filed by an inspector last year says that it's probably, you know, not a good idea.
"Pilots are stuffing paper material inside compartments where electrical wiring is and that this is a hazard not to mention that this is a form of workplace violence," Mary Pollock, an aviation health and safety occupational officer, wrote.
The memo comes six years after a female pilot discovered porn plastered in the cockpit of planes and filed a complaint. An internal investigation found "evidence of racial or ethnic prejudice as well as sexual materials in the work place." Some of the images the pilot discovered were violent, including one where "someone has drawn a knife in the back of the girl on the right hand side."
