The pilot decided to make an emergency landing due to reports of smoke in the Maryland-bound aircraft’s cabin. Four passengers and a crew member sustained minor injuries while exiting through evacuation slides.

The airline told the FAA that the mechanics could not find any problem in the aircraft.

The president of the Airline Professionals Association Teamsters Local 1224, Dan Wells, said, “Believe me, the message was intentional and loud and clear: Don’t you dare push the safety stuff too far.”

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The complaint, filed by a representative of the pilot’s union in France, François Hamant, seeks rights for the pilots for refusing to fly to the countries impacted by Ebola virus, without suffering from any kind of disciplinary or financial consequences.

This move has come just weeks after the airline’s cabin crew staff union circulated a petition asking the management to stop flights to the affected countries. It is feared that such moves would make these countries, especially the worst affected ones such as Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, further isolated from the rest of the world and hard-to-reach for international health organizations working for containing and combating the disease.

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