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Fri, Apr 18, 2014

Canadian Flight Instructor Fired Over MH370 Appearances

Had Acted As An 'Expert' For CNN, Company Said He Made Canadians 'Look Bad All Over The World'

A Canadian flight instructor has been terminated by a simulator business because of his appearances on CNN as an "expert" for the network's coverage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

But it wasn't Mitchell Casado's content that got him canned. It was how he dressed for his appearances. And it made him late for work, according to uFly owner Claudio Teixeira.

The Associated Press reports that Teixeira said he let Casado go because he "dressed like a teenager" when he appeared on CNN, which "shamed Canadians" and made his countrymen "look bad all over the world." He wore plaid shirts and jeans when he appeared on the cable network with reporter Martin Savidge in a B777 simulator at uFly's headquarters in Toronto.

Teixeira also said Casado tended to not come to work when a customer had the triple-seven sim booked, and that the company had received many email complaints about the way he dressed on television.

Casado and Savidge sometimes spent as much as 18 hours a day in the sim. Coverage of the missing plane was attributed in part to boosting the networks ratings by 84 percent in March.

Casado would not comment to the AP, but said in a Tweet that “My boss had me training a new guy the last few days, and now that he can do my job, and CNN left, he fired me. That’s Ufly.”

FMI: http://uflysimulator.ca

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