Originally Posted by
MPN11
Gentlemen [as most of you will be] ... a serious question.
Mr. Ibbotson's Licence and Log book presumably travelled with him, in his 'Nav Bag'? As did, probably, his cellphone. The details therein are thus critical to any enquiry. Are they stored elsewhere, on a database, or do those documents form the only record of licensing and currency? Would the attempted recovery of said bag not be significant, or am I overthinking a subject about which i confess I know nothing?
There is no legal requirement for a pilot to carry a personal log book in the aircraft, indeed it would obviously be counterproductive if lost.
The requirement is to complete one's log book "in a reasonable time".