He can always be fired later. The inevitable civil suit could be damaging to the airline. Appropriate corrective action must be taken to illustrate remedy should the issue end up in court.
We're told the women in the vid had gotten into a skirmish earlier, on the airplane, and they knew each other. They were eventually escorted away by a Delta employee, and as they were walking away, cops showed up. We're told neither of the women wanted to press charges against anyone.
I suppose charges of 'disturbing the peace' were never considered.
A Delta pilot smacked a passenger who was fighting with another passenger at the Atlanta airport ... and it was caught on video.
We're told the incident went down sometime on April 21. The plane had just landed and the passengers were leaving the jetway when 2 women started fighting.
The pilot appears and tries separating the women. He then grabs one of them by the arm and hits her. The pilot walks away as the women are still on the ground.
He's lucky they both didn't turn on him. Ignoring the melee and insuring police were called would have been a more prudent option. The entire event could have well been staged.
We're told a Delta employee gave a supervisor the video almost immediately after the incident. We're also told some Delta employees were upset because security wasn't called.
We reached out to Delta, and a rep tells us the airline is investigating and "taking this very seriously."
White male member of highly paid privileged class, of course there will be a full investigation. It is Atlanta, right ?