A British Airways pilot sentenced to 12 years in prison for misleading authorities about his flight experience

I was always told, if you say you have a thousand hours in type, you better fly like you have a thousand hours in type.

Yeah I noticed that too; I was going to comment that 12 years seems excessive even given the risk, but 12 months sounds much more reasonable, if not fairly lenient. I'm not sure if criminal prosecution is common here in the U.S. for getting a job under false pretenses; I usually only hear of civil penalties.

Yes,the headline error obviously by original poster Tom Novak. In the body of the linked article, the story clearly says 12 MONTHS.

Editor does not exist!

Editor is not reading.... LOL !!

The editor posts then disappears. Unless it's something over the top, a simple little graphical error is nothing but blip to them.

Heck everybody knows it's okay to lye, just ask any politician or student.

An act of affirmative action? Remember the FAA tried its hand at hiring prospective ATC specialists based upon skin color and socioeconomic status. Or maybe filling quotas.

I beg to honorably differ with you. I am a digital forensics expert witnesss with more than 2 decades of courtroom experience. Many, many factors can intervene to slow lady Justice to a crawl. Maneuvers by the prosecution, the defense, clients that fire and hire new attorneys, recent precedent changing rulings, illnesses of key people on either side of the court, changes in plea deals, and more. Besides all of thos possibilities COVID 19 moved in and shut down the legal system for years. We are just now dealing with crimes committed In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019and following. Too many trials and too few active courts. We (meaning our team of attorneys and experts) just got a man charged.with capital murder in 2017, and immediately incarcerated, found not guilty in October of 2021. He was poor, never could make bail, and sat there for almost 4 years. That is more common than one knows. Faulty investigations also play a role in delayed justice. There are a significant number of those too. I hope this helps you understand some of the problems. Thank you.

They'll say: you're right, we don't need any pilots at all!

Same amateur commenting. It's come on, not common. How about a bit of editorial effort, Dan!

Good question!
A person I know that knew this man described him as a “likable Jack the lad”!!

top-down vs bottom-up improprieties are handled very differently! Money talks.

It’s an extremely badly written article with many omissions. You could not tell it was a false or forged license. Sounded like he falsified his logbook (called padding) and his CV. He may well have had a CPL or ATPL.

Not a “white collar” violation when it puts lives at risk.

Kinda doubt they had the guy arrested, put on trail, convicted, sentenced to prison and thereby created a hugely embarrassing world wide news story that calls into question their company's safety culture... in order to "easily" fire someone. Seems a lot more reasonable that this guy was dangerously incompetent and they were afraid of him lying his way into a job somewhere else if they didn't report him.

Flight aware doesn’t do the reporting. This is a comment section. Someone else posted a link to a story on another website, which is what all these items on Flightaware are.