{"id":432154,"date":"2026-05-19T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-captain-fired-scapegoat-reporting-cockpit-breech\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:25:23","slug":"united-airlines-captain-allegedly-fired-made-scapegoat-after-reporting-cockpit-breech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=432154","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Captain Allegedly Fired, Made \u201cScapegoat\u201d After Reporting Cockpit Breech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unfortunate ending for a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> pilot has resulted in Captain Cynthia Clifford losing her job when the charter flight she was operating saw a passenger sit in her seat and post it on social media. The flight was a charter service on board a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"76754\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 757<\/span><\/span> aircraft between <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"144284\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/denver-international-airport\/\"  >Denver International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DEN) and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260104\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/toronto-pearson-airport\/\"  >Toronto Pearson International Airport<\/a><\/span> (YYZ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unfortunate ending for Captain Cynthia Clifford after reporting a passenger in her seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,3422,629,43,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-captain","category-pilots","category-safety","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432157,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432154\/revisions\/432157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}