Sampson, who was brought on by then-chair Leigh Clifford in 2015, will exit the Flying Kangaroo almost two years after surviving a vote to remove him at the group’s 2023 AGM.
The TWU says the four-hour flight, which carried the Fremantle Dockers AFL team home from Launceston to Perth on Saturday, 13 July, ran out of water after around half an hour, disabling the toilets and posing a “significant health and safety risk”.