An Atlanta charter operator should pay $5.89 million in civil penalties for conducting hundreds of illegal charter flights from 2017 through 2019, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says.
The FAA said Wednesday that Humes McCoy Aviation operated three airplanes ─ a Cessna Caravan, Beechcraft Super King Air and CASA 212-200 ─ on a total of 270 illegal cargo flights.
“The flights were illegal because the company did not have a commercial operating certificate, advertised and offered to perform operations that required such a certificate, received compensation for the flights and used pilots who had not passed required tests and flight competency checks,” the FAA said.
The FAA also alleged that Humes McCoy lacked an approved pilot training program and a hazardous materials training program and that it had not provided the required initial and recurrent hazardous materials trainin…
