Here is the flight plan. Whoever filed it put pending in the certificate box. He may not have filed it himself.
However, I cannot find either pilot in the FAA airman records. A temporary airman certificate does have a number.
From another forum, and a Mexican poster. " probably Lazy dispatch that didn’t put the certificate in. From what I’ve seen, the certificates were good. "
The captain was flying a Challenger internationally in 2011.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-El-Chapo.html