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'''Thomas Harry Salme''' (born 18 February 1969) |
'''Thomas Harry Salme''' (born 18 February 1969) Photographer and Documentary film maker became famous after flying passenger jets without a commercial pilot's license. After working as a First Officer and Captain from 1997 to 2010 for several international airline companies – such as the Turkish and Dutch [[Corendon Airlines]], the Italian [[Air One]], and the English [[Jet2]] – Salme was arrested at Amsterdam's [[Schiphol Airport]] in March 2010. |
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In 1997, Salme, who had never actually flow a large aircraft, applied to the Italian airline company Air One as a co-pilot with false papers and a forged ID number. |
In 1997, Salme, who had never actually flow a large aircraft, applied to the Italian airline company Air One as a co-pilot with false papers and a forged ID number. |
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Thomas Harry Salme (born 18 February 1969) Photographer and Documentary film maker became famous after flying passenger jets without a commercial pilot's license. After working as a First Officer and Captain from 1997 to 2010 for several international airline companies – such as the Turkish and Dutch Corendon Airlines, the Italian Air One, and the English Jet2 – Salme was arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in March 2010.
Light Fine
In 1997, Salme, who had never actually flow a large aircraft, applied to the Italian airline company Air One as a co-pilot with false papers and a forged ID number.
In 1999, he was appointed captain and kept on working in Air One until 2006. He then moved to the Turkish and Dutch airline company Corendon, where he worked as a Captain for a year, before being offered a contract at the English Jet2. After only ten months he decided to go back to work for Corendon Airlines, where he regularly flew passenger jets for another two years before he was arrested in 2010.
Salme was caught at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in March 2010, while seated in the cockpit of a Corendon Boeing 737 carrying 101 passengers just a few minutes before take-off. Officers, who were alerted by a Swedish tip-off, said the man had once had a private pilot license, but it had expired and it never qualified him for passenger flights. As a result, he was fined £1,700 and was banned from flying for 12 months by a Dutch court.
References
- The Sun (2011). Cockpit con was easy, says pilot .
- The Telegraph (2010). Fake pilot who flew for 13 years without license.