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This guy deserves to be locked up for a very long time:

After Matthew Jones, 35, was indicted in Oct. 2021 for violating FAR's and wire fraud he continued to violate the court ordered conditions of his release by operating an airplane without an appropriate pilot certificate. He only has rotary wing Commercial/Instrument. Now he's been indicted again on the same charges. He claimed to be a CFI, entered into an LLC and advertised online that he was opening a flight school and charter provider.

On Dec. 29th 2021 he crashed a Robinson R44 helicopter seriously injuring himself and killing his girlfriend after he picked up the R44 in Sevierville, TN and was taking it back to Utah. He was cautioned by several pilots about the dangers of Smokey Mountain flying in marginal weather which was deteriorating from marginal VMC to IMC. They departed at 2:15pm and flew thru valleys between 1,200 and 1,750 feet AGL before the R44 hit trees and was destroyed 10 minutes after taking off.