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Germany: Pilot's association condemns forceful deportations

01 January 2001

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The managing board of directors of the German pilot’s association Cockpit has issued a recommendation to their members not to take part in involuntary deportations. The association, which used to recommend its pilots to adhere to deportation orders so as to avoid difficulties with the employing aviation companies, issued a recommendation earlier this year to ask the deportee if they agree to the deportation. If this is not the case, pilots should refuse to fly. Anti?deportation campaigners who, since the death of several refugees on aircraft during deportations from Europe, are increasingly targeting aviation companies for their involvement in the deportation business, argue that this development highlights the issue of personal responsibilities in the case of injury or death of deportees, and calls for a European?wide lobby of pilots associations and other transport unions to refuse cooperation in the potentially deadly practice of deportation.

See: www.cockpit.de and www.deportation-alliance.com

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