Irish budget airline Ryanair have added newspaper publishers and to their legal targets in a defamation action filed yesterday in Dublin that also targets . A Ryanair Boeing 737 pictured in 2006. The move confirms the carrier's expression of intent to sue Channel 4 after the UK broadcaster screened Secrets of the Cockpit, a documentary about safety at the airline, on Monday night. Part of the Dispatches series, the show reported on an incident in Spain last year where three Ryanair jets declared fuel emergencies after being diverted to . Fuel policy was a strong focus for the documentary. Ryanair makes heavy use of , which do not guarantee work and which the Irish Airline Pilots' Association describe as offering some of aviation's worst employment conditions. RPG chairman Evert van Zwol, also a recent Dutch Airline Pilots Association president, said zero-hour contracts tended to make pilots choose to fly when unwell and keep quiet if they had safety concerns. In 2005 a Polish Ryanair pilot became lost near  a few days after attending his son's funeral, while his Dutch co-pilot was seeing his first experience of navigating severe weather. In Sweden a report into a Ryanair emergency landing concluded this week an airline employee wiped the cockpit voice recorder and to prevent the investigation accessing them. The aircraft had returned to an airport near  shortly after takeoff suffering electrical malfunctions. Ryanair reject the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority's take on the missing data, telling newspaper recordings were reset by a technician trying to repair the aircraft after consultation with Ryanair's technical department, who did not think the recordings needed saving.
Irish budget airline Ryanair have added newspaper publishers and to their legal targets in a defamation action filed yesterday in Dublin that also targets Channel 4. A Ryanair Boeing 737 pictured in 2006. The move confirms the carrier's expression of intent to sue Channel 4 after the UK broadcaster screened Secrets of the Cockpit, a documentary about safety at the airline, on Monday night. Part of the Dispatches series, the show reported on an incident in Spain last year where three Ryanair jets declared fuel emergencies after being diverted to . Fuel policy was a strong focus for the documentary. Ryanair makes heavy use of , which do not guarantee work and which the Irish Airline Pilots' Association describe as offering some of aviation's worst employment conditions. RPG chairman Evert van Zwol, also a recent Dutch Airline Pilots Association president, said zero-hour contracts tended to make pilots choose to fly when unwell and keep quiet if they had safety concerns. In 2005 a Polish Ryanair pilot became lost near Rome a few days after attending his son's funeral, while his Dutch co-pilot was seeing his first experience of navigating severe weather. In Sweden a report into a Ryanair emergency landing concluded this week an airline employee wiped the cockpit voice recorder and to prevent the investigation accessing them. The aircraft had returned to an airport near Stockholm shortly after takeoff suffering electrical malfunctions. Ryanair reject the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority's take on the missing data, telling newspaper recordings were reset by a technician trying to repair the aircraft after consultation with Ryanair's technical department, who did not think the recordings needed saving.
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