Fake pilot arrested
A fake pilot has been arrested at Amsterdam, as he was preparing to fly a passenger jet of a hundred passengers to Turkey. This was announced by the Dutch police yesterday. According to Corendon Airlines, the pilot had been flying for them for two years.
The news article explains that the pilot was Swedish, had been flying for European airlines for 13 years and had over 10,000 hours of flight time. I'm appalled to hear a thing like this, and it makes me wonder how the airlines failed to look up his history and certificates. It also makes me wonder why he did something stupid like this, but I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this.
Read the story on the BBC website
While reading the article, I found a link to a less serious but quite similar situation of a chinese man in -07 who tried to pass as a pilot to get a free flight home. Take a look at the article, and make note of the fine he was given!
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But what does this mean to the average user?
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