BA Reportedly Suspends Captain After X-Rated Cockpit Pics Surface

British Airways is said to have launched an investigation after becoming aware a series of indecent photographs featuring a pilot and taken aboard company aircraft mid-flight.

According to a disturbing report in the Daily Mail, a veteran British Airways pilot is accused of posing for compromising photographs while on duty. Captain Colin Glover, who has been employed with the British flag carrier for more than 25-years denies that he is the crew member whose image is captured in the racy photoshoot.

The lurid photographs at the root of this scandal are described as showing a man wearing fishnet stocking pleasuring himself on the flight deck of a British Airways plane. The pictures in one case also prominently feature a pornographic magazine on a control panel and stocking clad legs on the yoke of the aircraft. Other photographs reportedly show what is apparently the same man exposing himself in the lavatory.

The salacious details of the report have had made the airline the but of jokes in the British press. Officials, however, are not laughing and are instead pointing out the obvious dangers of this sort of outrageous behavior in flight.

The airline says that it has suspended the longtime employee pending a thorough investigation into apparent evidence of wildly inappropriate in-flight conduct. “We are taking this matter very seriously and are investigating,” a British Airways spokesperson told reporters in a statement.

Although rare, this isn’t the first time lascivious behavior on the flight deck has tarnished the professional image of commercial pilots. This summer a video surfaced documenting that a Kuwait Airlines pilot allegedly invited a adult film actress into the cockpit and allowed the porn star to press random radon buttons on the control panel. In October of 2014, Internal Air Canada memos revealed that the carrier’s chief pilot, on at least two occasions, warned flight crews about the practice of leaving explicit images behind in aircraft cockpits.

[Photo: British Airways]