Wow. WTF is it with FXE and idiots like this?
I'd be surprised if the FAA gives the f/o a pass. He's a required crew member that shares responsibility for the flight. They'll come down harder on the PIC for sure, but as with the airnet lear roll, the f/o will face the consequences of just sitting there letting the world roll by.
I know the captain, name is Brian, co-pilot was Jess, she is the girlfriend of the chief pilot there. THEY ROLLED IT 3 TIMES. They admitted to that.
She, the co-pilot, being the girlfriend of the chief pilot......damn well knew better than to do that. She will most likely get violated. Plus, she lawyered up instead of telling the FAA what happened, the FAA does not like when pilots lawyer up. She is finished for sure. But Brian will also most likely get revoked.
Like I said earlier, co-pilots for the most part are wussies and won't tell a captain that if he does something stupid on purpose that they will take the plane from them. And if that happened, there would be a struggle and an argument in the cockpit. There's other ways to get control of the plane.
Give you an example of what I did once when a captain was going to do something to us one day. In short, bad weather, got in line and were #14 for landing because all the ailiners from MIA and FLL had to come to PBI because those two airports were closed. After trying the VOR approach into Boca and going missed, then getting vectored all over carnation because of crazy traffic flow, we were very low on fuel in our Lear 25. This moron captain was going to get in line, #14 for landing. I said there's no way we can go 30 miles in the Atlantic, then 30 miles back, with the fuel we had and hope we make it down on the first try. Planes were going missed approach into PBI because of the weather. He disagreed, I said NO, he disagreed again and I said NO, he disagreed one last time. I picked up the mic and told tower that we were "minimum fuel" and had to land immediately. That was better than wrestling the plane from him with passengers watching in crappy weather. The dickhead captain had no choice but to cut in line and land immediately. There's more than one way to take control of the aircraft when the captain makes a stupid decision. The co-pilot becomes the captain at that point, as far as I'm concerned.
So, the co-pilot on the Hawker could have picked up the mic and reported what the captain was going to do to ATC. He would have gotten a guaranteed pass if he did that.
