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A pilot accused Aer Lingus bosses of pursuing a “witch hunt” against him after he told colleagues that files including birth certs, private emails and police records relating to staff were openly accessible on the airline’s internal computer systems, a tribunal has heard.
Dale Connolly, a captain in command of the heavy Airbus A330 jetliner on Aer Lingus’s transatlantic routes, has brought complaints against the airline under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and the Payment of Wages Act 1991 – alleging he was penalised for blowing the whistle about a potential data breach.