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A pilot wrongly accused of drinking before boarding an aircraft had his privacy breached in the investigation that followed, the Human Rights Review Tribunal has found.
A pilot has been awarded damages and the right to details he sought about an informant who accused him of drinking before boarding an aircraft.
The New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has been ordered to pay $19,000 in damages after it breached the pilot's privacy during an investigation that turned out to be based on a false allegation.
The Human Rights Review Tribunal also found in a decision released last month the informant did not use their real identity when lodging a concern with the CAA that they had "seen the pilot drinking at a hotel before boarding a plane" in 2017.
