Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
I know one pilot who unknowingly flew a worker in an underslung load net for a short distance and having owned up to the CAA found himself prosecuted and heavily fined.
To be fair Shy... It was not the CAA that charged and fined him it was the HSE for workplace safety violations which were dumped on him as the Commander who had the ultimate responsibility. Anyone familiar with the kind of ops that were flown in those days will agree that incident could have happened to any pilot. (His employer stepped in and paid the fine).