Originally Posted by
CargoOne
Some news say both pilots were a co-owners of this aircraft along with a spouse of one of them. Criminal investigation is open and all of them facing about 10 years in jail…. If so I would bet 99.99% it was not the first time they flew it commercially without having AOC nor ATPL…
aircraft was de-registered in the USA in Sept 2023, so on the new rego with Russia, it hasn't been on that for long, but then they may have a willing audience given the state of Russian aircraft today. There will be a pretty close inspection on the sales documents related to the time on the US rego though, particularly the on sale, did it comply with current restrictions etc. As to not having an ATPL, the DA10 is a transport category aircraft, and would normally require an ATPL to operate, but Russia is Russia. (In the USA, they could fly with a PPL, but they do need a rating per §61.31(a), both (1) and (2). USA ain't Russia...).