Originally Posted by
portmanteau
Were any of LaMia's other flights captained by someone other than Quiroga or was he the sole perpetrator of this tragic scam?
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Yes to the first question. Apparently not, to your last.
Quiroga was keen on marketing through social media. So you can still access his FB profile and superficially"cross check" flights (as well as the riskiest flights) they made against his FB photo record of who is crewing.
Quiroga is most frequently photo'd as the captain (& self-described there as Chief Pilot. Rocha annotated as Chief of Operations.)
Rocha ( owner 2, still in Paraguay,) is very occasionally, the captain, more often co-piloting. Ex-General Vargas also in his uniform co-piloting some of the flights, Co Pilot Encina is there too.
Incidentally, photos also seem to show that Quiroga brought along his child (teen son) for the previous Chapo game ( Cobija flight to Barranquilla for Copa Sudamericana Oct 18 flight.) Also photographed - his Ipad clearly propped on flight deck tracking routes etc. Quiroga also photographed his pilots licence, ratings, the company's licence, trips to Vigo in Spain (where Albacete lives) , flights to Sierra Leone etc etc.
Anyway, more important than his photo albums, would like to know how they managed to pay for their insurance, maybe there's another backer?
(ie. Last week, company records said LaMia had only US$16k, on paper, at time of the disaster. It has since been clarified that they did have valid insurance, although only to $25 m.)
Every report just generates more questions- hard to entangle amongst all the political infighting within the Govt.
In other MSM news: Brazilian Att General also reported that they managed to get the charters for 25 football teams between Aug & Nov 2016. (It's no wonder that, the morning after the crash, Vargas Snr, described the company's growth as "booming".)
Quiroga F-in-law ( the ex senator in exile) , claims he has documents to show the Lamia planes' leases were due to end on 31 Dec 2016 and that the company was already in negotiations to lease a fleet of five 757 from Brazilian & Spanish companies.