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A 41-year-old pilot has been arrested accused of flying with a fake licence.

Gary Parsons - 4-Mar-2010

March 4: A 41-year-old Swedish pilot was arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport in the Netherlands yesterday accused of flying with a fake licence for the last 13 years, reports the Daily Mail.

The pilot was about to fly 101 passengers in a Boeing 737 to Ankara in Turkey for Turkish operator Corendon when Dutch police pounced. It is reported that the Swede, who lives in Milan, has logged more than 10,000 hours on various European airlines over the last decade - he had once had a commercial pilot licence, but it had expired and it never qualified him for passenger flights.

The pilot is being held in custody at Haarlem, near Amsterdam, awaiting bail for trial.

Filed Under Commercial Aviation News, Commercial Aviation News.

1 Comment

MR P.Evans. said on the 6-Mar-2010 at 12:19

This pilot is a clearly competant and needs re training to gain the correct licence for the job he has been doing so well for the last 13 years, Arrests should be also made with each airline that he has worked for for not putting in correct sicurity checks if this man has blaged his way all this time then how easy would it be for organised terrorists how safe are airlines when the company he is working for clearly dosent know this mans history. I fly to Florida in september and embrace as many security checks as it takes to keep things safe and maybe airlines need to look internaly at what thay are doing things more checks please.