Commercial pilot for 13 years with fake license
By teamrose
@teamrose (1492)
United States
March 3, 2010 6:34pm CST
And I thought I was bad with a fake ID at 15!
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AMSTERDAM — A pilot suspected of flying with a forged license for more than a decade has been arrested in the Netherlands.
Dutch media said the man, a 41-year-old Swede, was arrested in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 scheduled to fly from Amsterdam to Ankara, Turkey.
Lawyer Benno Friedberg of Turkish airline Corendon said the company had cooperated with police. The pilot worked for Corendon for two years and is suspected of falsifying documents.
Dutch broadcaster NOS reported Wednesday that the Swede acknowledged the fraud after his arrest Tuesday.
The NOS said the man had an expired private license. He allegedly forged a commercial license and used it to fly for charter airlines in Belgium, Britain and Italy for 13 years
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
4 Mar 10
Honestly, I believe that that guy is indeed a good pilot by all those accomplishments that he had have after all those thirteen years of flying. It just so happens that he lives in a world where people are more concerned with licenses and all those other documentations rather than taking note of how competent a guy truly is in his chosen field of endeavour.
No matter how we look at it, falsifying documents will always be a bad act. It is something which all of us must get rid of in our system. A change from within taking place within each one of us, will surely produce for us a better world to live in.
Each of us must be able to develop the right moral, social and spiritual values in order to be able to cope with how the world runs in the light of righteousness at all times.
