The owner is also the president and director of maintenance. He is known for not employing any ex-military mechanics. His business model apparently revolves mostly around hiring mechanics with little to no formal education, training or experience, instead providing apprenticeships at his company.
Wow! This is a damning indictment of the maintenance philosophy and safety standards that are evidently practised (or not) at ATAC / Lortie.
Maintenance personnel with no experience on these types of jets and taken on as "apprentices" is probably some tax dodge for Lortie, in addition to the lower wages of course. The pilots flying these jets must have some trepidation with such maintenance standards, and the track record of disasters chronicled above by Farley. Also by not having ex-military troops maintaining the jets cuts out any experienced voices speaking up against the shoddy standards.