Originally Posted by
billdokes
I think that's called 'hiding in plain sight'.
His forged docs must have been pretty good!
Really doubt anything will happen to his pension but it will be interesting to see what happens in the criminal case...I expect a slap on the wrist at best based on what the violent criminals get these days.
Some of the reporting is interesting as well...did the guy really only do 900 flights over 17 years? Seems a little low to me.
900 flights over 17 years works out to just over 52 flights a year, or one a week. I'm no aviation expert, and though that may seem low I remind myself of the following. 1) Typical flight crew schedule for international flights are normally departure flight, overnight at destination, return flight, overnight at home for rest day, repeat. Plus the occasional 'weekend' off every couple three turns for sanity. 2) add vacation time for someone with high seniority, after 20+ years I would expect at least 6 week of vacation time per year. 3) does this number account for every flight worked or only those where he fraudulently acted as the captain. Does this number account for times where he acted as the co pilot?
Based on this I would not be shocked if a senior pilot physically acts as the captain on a flight as few as a handful of times a month.