Originally Posted by
1wife2airlines
The NTSB preliminary report says it was under Part 91. Would that depend on what the pax say they agreed to pay?
No.
The operator is a 135 operator, with passengers carried for compensation or hire. Unless the operator happened to be going to that destination and the passengers just tagged along, any flight carrying passengers for compensation or hire (the logging of flight time is considered compensation), then the flight was an illegal charter.
The passengers aren't likely to be particularly generous to the operator or illegal crew, given that this negligence nearly killed them. Standby for the law suit.
Originally Posted by
1wife2airlines
So the pilot who refused the trip dropped a dime to the FAA and they had someone at KGMU ready to ramp check on arrival
No.
The FAA wasn't "standing by," and the pilot didn't "drop a dime."
He had refused the trip, however, due to brakes.