Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Wow - a rather ambitious theft. Either that, or plain stoopid...
PS: TNIP - By any chance is the suspect thief known to the builder? Who has legal title to the aircraft?
Theft, in Victorian Law, is the
unlawful appropriation of
property belonging to another with the
intention of permanently depriving the other of it: s72 Crimes Act.
the “unlawful” bit of the appropriation might be a hurdle to proving theft if the person taking the goods had keys to the hangar and aircraft. The question of the maintenance release is not relevant to this in my view and the 51% build is only relevant to who can perform it. The corporation would need to try to make out theft if it can but to me it is a messy civil matter with some
potential aviation law thrown in.
kaz