Hansens deaths
According to the various newspaper reports there has been about 15 pilots killed while working for Hansen's. I can only identify one pilot by name. Rafael Santos Cruz. An El Salvadorian pilot, ex military, and a highly skilled pilot, and a highly regarded in the industry.
Court minutes refer evidence placed before the court , "........Email dated 09/07/2015 from Crowe to Snaer re: Cost of Rafael Antonio Cruz Santos' funeral and Crowe "thought we were getting off cheap." (Prozik).........".
Peter Prozik was the FBI agent who carried out the search warrant that disclosed the gold mine of information in Hansen's own computers. Basically they were convicted on their own evidence. Rafael's helicopter crashed due to the failure of a bogus tail rotor pitch link, which was conceded in court.. The fact that they were so proud that they shafted the family with a token payment that seemed generous at the time to the family in an impoverished Central American economy, and then went print boasting about it, pretty much supports the prosecutions position that it was profit and greed that drove John Walker and his crony's into making millions at the expense of safety and compliance.
A couple of us know of him from Ft Rucker. We are in the process of giving some support to his family. We would welcome any information as any of the other deaths (or serious injuries) from other Hansen accidents that has been reported. Names, approximate dates or any details would be of use. It might be that there is a possibility of a class action against all of the defendants to get proper compensation for the those affected. We have a pro bono law firm that might be willing to take it on. We just need to do the homework for them to have alook at the big picture. We also need to act on it before the government grabs all the cash.