Former Cape Air Pilot Goes To Prison For Lying On Medical

[Moustache]

Ummmm Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that.




What an a$$hole

And Ronny is a peach for almost killing everyone on board--we take medical exams for a reason---personal responsibility seems to be lost on this regional board

 

[jmreii]

BOSTON—A former Cape Air pilot whose illness caused an emergency landing in 2002 was sentenced to 16 months in prison for lying to the Federal Aviation Administration about his diabetes.
The U.S. Attorney's office said Ronald Crews hid the condition from the FAA for his entire career.
Crews suffered a diabetic seizure in the middle of a flight from Martha's Vineyard to Hyannis in February 2002.
One of the four passengers, Melanie Oswalt, landed the plane safely at Provincetown Airport, even though its landing gear didn't extend and the airport was closed.
Oswalt was a Cape Air security supervisor who was a pilot-in-training with just 48 hours flying experience.
Crews pleaded guilty last year to four counts of making false statements to a federal agency. He was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston.

Lying, forgetting, omitting is all the same.

 

[Talian]

Diabetes aside---this is crazy!!!

"Crews's criminal history includes an air-to-air high-speed chase with US Customs in 1984, after he blew by a Customs checkpoint in South Florida. When Customs ran him to ground, his plane was packed with cocaine, and he had a large amount of cash and a gun. Sentenced to over four years in prison, Crews was released after 11 months in a local jail.

Crews came to Cape Air's Massachusetts operation from its Florida and Caribbean operations, where he was employed beginning in 1997 (Some of Cape Air's pilots follow its seasonal traffic north and south). At the time he lived in St. Thomas, USVI. The airline has said that it had no idea of Crews's diabetes, nor of his criminal history, nor of a 1985 pilot's licence revocation for transporting drugs in an airplane. The airline conducts a records check, but it only goes back 10 years, not far enough to catch Crews's drug conviction and sentence."

If Mesa is in business when he gets out they will hire him. Sorry I couldn,t resist...

 

[Ratherbsurfing]

An ATP is required for single pilot part 135 multi-engine passenger operations. How did this guy ever get one or get his back after the cocaine bust? Doesn't breaking the law and smuggling cocaine into the country imply a person doesn't have good moral character?

 

[BGSkyGuy]

An ATP is required for single pilot part 135 multi-engine passenger operations.

False

 

[Ratherbsurfing]

False

I just assumed that everyone would know that Cape Air is a scheduled operation and therefore an ATP is required. 135.243 So, actually, true.

 

[WSurf]

Not having good Moral Character? Too funny, that would probably wipe out 50% of the Captains flying around at the regionals.

 

[Guitar Guy]

Has anyone ever heard of someone being denied an ATP for the "good moral character" clause?

 

[Greensnake]

I personally know someone who was caught running drugs from South America and he still flys today. Ex-Vietnam Cobra guy. Having said that, he does not fly commercially. I believe he was flying a DC-3. Years ago.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Once heard a story about WD from the now defunct Airman in OUN.

Allegedly, him and another pilot flew down to some Latin American country and flew back to OUN. Somehow they landed gear-up and needed to be transported to the hospital. The next day the FAA/NTSB came around to look into the accident and found that there were bundles of cocaine stuffed within the airframe. Both were placed under arrest, but eventually the charges were dropped as the FAA/NTSB hadn't arrived immediately to the scene, and so it was considered legally "plausible" that the plane being left unattended could have had someone plant the drugs.

I call that pretty lucky.