Well said Macroderma and from the heart I would suggest!
I am simply saying that if the customer (Ian Lovell's partner) had been informed that Barry Hempel did not hold a CPL, and therefore possibly (?) was not licenced to carry paying passengers, she might well have made a very different decision, and perhaps sought the services of another, licenced operator, or maybe even not have purchased a joyflight at all.
Hence my previous post #80 on the Willowbank jump plane crash. The two ladies, although signing all the waivers etc for the tandem jump, were never informed that the jump aircraft wasn't operating under an AOC and hence more heavily scrutinised by the regulator, otherwise they may not have decided not to jump!