Pilot Sentenced For “Completing Lewd Act” During Flight

The Associated Press reports:

A retired Southwest Airlines pilot was sentenced to probation Friday after pleading guilty to exposing his genitals to a female first officer and watching pornography on a laptop during a flight from Philadelphia to Florida last year.

Michael Haak, 60, apologized and expressed remorse for his actions before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson sentenced him to one year of unsupervised probation and a $5,000 fine.

“It started as a consensual prank between me and the other pilot. I never imagined it would turn into this in a thousand years,” Haak said during a remote hearing.

Read the full article. Southwest says it only learned of the incident after the pilot had left the company. As I reported last month, the feds said, “The lewd acts began, continued and were completed while the aircraft was in flight.”

Michael Haak, 60, apologized and expressed remorse for his actions before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson sentenced him to one year of unsupervised probation and a $5,000 fine. https://t.co/CEwJzZysdL

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