NetJets Defeats Female Pilot’s Sex Bias Suit Over Short Stature

A female pilot who claimed NetJets Aviation Inc. fired her after she failed a “check ride” during probation because she was too short to fly that type of aircraft lacked evidence of sex discrimination, an Ohio federal judge ruled.

Sahri Drerup didn’t identify any male pilots who were treated more favorably under similar circumstances, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said. She pointed to three men who NetJets reassigned to a different aircraft because they didn’t “fit” in the Phenom 300 that she was trained on because they were too tall.

But unlike them, the 5-foot-2-inch ...