Phil77,
I don't think that statement resolves the licence issue at all, looks like a piece out of some newspaper.
And westindian says if mike doesn't go then the patient dies, yet mike is dead and therefore a "good guy", and the patient lives happily ever after, how does that work???
Quite a bit of mismanagement by all involved
islandgirl, according to reports the aircraft was a local registration not american. That means the pilot would have to have a local licence to fly it