PILOT JAILED
FIVE YEARS imprisonment without the option of a fine was the sentence imposed recently by the Regional Court in Pretoria on a South African agricultural pilot, Foxtrot Mike, who was found guilty on a charge of falsifying a pilot's licence with intent to defraud.
The court found that Mr Mike had falsified a United States FAA Private Pilot's to make it appear to be a Commercial Pilot's Licence. He has then requested the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) to validate the FAA licence,
A CAA inspector suspected the licence to be falsified and contacted the FAA which confirmed that no commercial licence has ever been issued to Mr Mike.
Commenting on the outcome of the case and the sentence, the Chief Director of the CAA, Rennie van Zyl, said that a proper example has been made of Mike and that the industry should take note that the CAA would pursue cases where irresponsible individuals jeopardised flight saftey.
Van Zyl said it was the duty of the CAA, being a signatory to the Chicago Convention, to ensure safe skies and a properly regulated enviroment for aviation.
MAN GESTRAF NA' HY VLIEGLISENSIE VERSIEN
KAAPSTAD - n' Man wat volgens getuienis jare lank onder meer lugbesuiting gedoen het sonder dat hy in besit was van n' wettige vlieglisensie is in die Pretoriase streekhof opgele.
FOXTROT MIKE (40) voorheen van Kerk Straat 17, Porterville, is skuldig bevind op n' hoofaanklag van berdrog omdat hy ann die Departement van Burgerlugvaart voorgegee het hy beskik oor n' Amerikaanse handelsvlieglisensie.
In sy aansoek aan Burgerlugvaart om die geldigverklaring van die lisensie in Suid Afrika het hy voorgegee sy lisensie is in 1984 deur die Amerikaanse lugvaartadministrasie aan hom uitgereik.
Die alternatiewe aanklagte was vervalsing en uitgifte, en n' oortreding van die wet op Burgerlugvaart.
Mnr Harold Everett, hoof van die administrtiewe afdeling van die Amerikaanse lugvaartadministrasie en n' vluginspeketeur van die administrasie, Mnr Felix Lecoco het in die saak getuig. Hulle is speciaal daarvoor op die koste van die Departement van Bugerlugvaar na Suid Afrika gebring.
Fox Mike se aansoek om bortog hangende n' aansoek om appel is duer streeklanddros Magriet Cook geweier.
Just a little interesting reading about some of the people who fly in our skies....and how the SACCA can allow these people to continue???? Maybe this should be on the CAA thread??
