Five New York Police pilots who were feuding with their boss flew a $4 million counter-surveillance plane in a giant penis-shaped route in a bid to troll him.
The phallic flight pattern showed up on the NYPD's tracking system back in March when the pilots opted to protest against Aviation Unit head Inspector James Coan, the New York Post reports.
Supervisors monitoring the flight-tracking software immediately alerted Coan when they noticed the penis shape.
Two of the pilots were removed from the unit as a result and the others disciplined after a departmental hearing.
The pilots staged the protest after they questioned whether the federally-funded plane was safe to fly over water at low altitude.
They were concerned about crashing into the ocean if a propeller happened to blow.
The pilots said they were ordered to start carrying out the flights in July last year.
Coan reportedly increased the number of runs in March.
'Any of the people who complained about the mission — they got the s–t end of the stick,' a source told the Post.
'They had to do all these menial tasks outside their job description, including washing (Coan's) car.'
The NYPD agreed in May to stop the missions until meeting with union representatives.
The plane in question was the same one the NYPD used to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio to and from vacation in Canada last month.
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