06C Flight School Owner Hangs for his lies

[DX Rick]

Just saw on the local news, Mark Clements, the owner of Northwest Aviation at Schaumburg Airport lost his operators ticket, HIS own pilots license and much more for falsifying logs and documents on his airplanes.
Through his lawyer he addmitted in lying. Waiting for the link.

 

[FN FAL]

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4054768

FAA revoked license of pilot who made expressway landing


By Chuck Goudie

April 4, 2006 - The ABC7 I-Team has learned that the Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the pilot's license of the owner of a plane which crashed on the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway. In our Intelligence Report, we have new details of that mysterious February accident and the plane's owner.

Nobody was killed or seriously hurt in the spectacular expressway landing on a Sunday afternoon six weeks ago. The I-Team has learned that federal authorities have just revoked the license of the man who owned the plane, and the flight school it was from revoked his license for falsifying the training records of a flight instructor.


The Cessna that made an emergency landing in bitter cold conditions, hit an expressway lamp pole and then flipped over. The flight instructor and student pilot were from Northwest Aviation, which operates out of the Schaumburg airport.

"Both the pilot and crews that fly every day are well trained to be able to handle events like this," said Mark Clements, Northwest Aviation owner.

According to a federal emergency order revoking Clement's license obtained by the I-Team, the FAA administrator has found that an "emergency exists related to air safety."

Authorities say that on September 20 Clements made a fraudulent or false statement on an application by a flight instructor trainee. They say he made a false or fraudulent entry in a pilot logbook record stating that he had flown with the trainee when he hadn't.

Although the violations occurred at Northwest Aviation, because Northwest is not and doesn't have to be licensed by the FAA, federal authorities went after Clement's personal pilots credentials.

Clements contends that this February crash landing on the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway had nothing to do with his license revocation. By phone from an aircraft show in Florida, Clements begged the I-Team not to put this story on television, saying it wasn't newsworthy.

Clements says the flight school he owns at the Schaumburg airport will continue to operate, but admits that he won't be able to fly or train any students.

Clements also said that February's crash landing was not the result of the plane running out of fuel as he previously said. He now claims that the finding of investigators will either be carburetor icing or undetermined.

Clements admitted to falsifying the records according to his lawyer, who says that the infraction resulted from a misunderstanding and nothing sinister.
The attorney notes that the FAA handed Clements only a six-month revocation of his pilot's license. He says if federal authorities were truly concerned about public safety being endangered they would have permanently revoked his license.

 

[AirBadger]

Better watch out, or the "I-Team" is gonna get ya. I pity the fool that messes with the I-Team.

 

[A Squared]

Clements admitted to falsifying the records according to his lawyer, who says that the infraction resulted from a misunderstanding and nothing sinister.
The attorney notes that the FAA handed Clements only a six-month revocation of his pilot's license. He says if federal authorities were truly concerned about public safety being endangered they would have permanently revoked his license.

Unless the "I team" has badly misquoted the attorney, I'd retain a different one. A revocation is forever. The emergency revocation gives the FAA 6 months to prove it's case in court, the revocation is either overturned, or upheld. If it's upheld, it's permenant.

 

[Gutenberg]

And it was a Piper, not a Cessna. Don't hear too many carb ice stories involving Pipers...hmmmmm.

 

[FN FAL]

And it was a Piper, not a Cessna. Don't hear too many carb ice stories involving Pipers...hmmmmm.

And you guys missed the most important one of them all...the article headline says...

FAA revoked license of pilot who made expressway landing

The owner of the school wasn't flying the crashed plane, was he?

 

[Corona]

And it was a Piper, not a Cessna. Don't hear too many carb ice stories involving Pipers...hmmmmm.

And you don't hear too many stories of Cessna pilots getting their feet chopped off by the airplane in emergency landings, unlike Pipers...

C

 

[AC560]

And you guys missed the most important one of them all...the article headline says...

The owner of the school wasn't flying the crashed plane, was he?

No the owner wasn't flying and if you go to the original link they have changed the headline to read "FAA revokes plane owner's pilot license".

 

[RockbrigadePC1]

I have talked to this guy at least on one occasion, he was really rude.

Not that I want to advocate someone losing the ability to fly, but this guy had it coming.

 

[JohnE]

I don't get it.. What sign off did he falsify? Did he sign off the instructor on a check-out that didn't happen? Wouldn't this be more of an insurance (non-FAA) issue?

Or was he the Chief pilot and had to check him out to let him give instruction?