Evidence ends in case of pilot fired over sex

The Employment Court has finished hearing evidence in the case of a former Air Nelson pilot who is seeking to get his job back after being sacked for having sex with a young flight attendant.

The teenage woman, who has name suppression, and two Air Nelson pilots had a drinking session in a hotel room after an unscheduled stopover in Napier because of bad weather in May 2008.

Appearing in Auckland Employment Court on Tuesday, the attendant said she could not remember what happened for the four hours after midnight until she woke up in the pilot's bed and rang a friend in a distressed state saying she believed she and the pilot had had sex.

The pilot said sex had been consensual and the woman had in fact initiated it.

Questions were also raised about the amount of alcohol the pilot had consumed that night when he had to fly a plane the next day.

Legal submissions on the case will be given on August 25.

- NZPA