Air Canada pilot flew 17 years without proper certification

Potentially thousands of passengers flew on commercial aircraft piloted by an unlicensed operator over 17 years, creating unquantified safety risks.

For seventeen years, passengers boarded Air Canada flights trusting that the person at the controls had been vetted, certified, and authorized by both the airline and the state — a trust, it now emerges, that was misplaced. The discovery that a pilot operated commercial routes for nearly two decades without proper licensing is not merely a procedural failure; it is a quiet rupture in the social contract that makes mass aviation possible. When the systems designed to stand between the public and preventable harm go unchecked long enough, their absence becomes indistinguishable from their presen

Air Canada pilot flew 17 years without proper certification

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