Originally Posted by
Mike Flynn
And of course knowing his financial predicament Henderson knew he would not decline.
When he handed the aircraft keys to Ibbotson that weekend it must have crossed his mind that he was encouraging and assisting Ibbotson to break the law.
The agent has explained he assigned Henderson to carry out the charter.
The lawyers will be beating a path to his door and given the sums involved this is going to be expensive.
Looking at the wider picture ,we have as others pointed out earlier, the issue of jockey flights and other grey area charters.
AOPA should be making a big fuss about this in the press to highlight how cowboy operations are undermining the genuine AOC companies.
Can we stop perpetuating the concept of ‘grey area’ charters.
The concern is with illegal flights.
Be it to take bird watchers to Scotland or a footballer to Cardiff.
The 3 1/2-year sentence for Robert Murgatroyd is encouraging but will it deter the ‘chancer’ when they know that their illegal flight will not be discovered unless/until they have an accident ?