{"id":2856,"date":"2010-10-07T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:25:07","slug":"charter-company-behind-crash-was-unauthorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/charter-company-behind-crash-was-unauthorized","title":{"rendered":"Charter Company Behind Crash Was Unauthorized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As aviation officials investigate the cause of  the crash that ended the lives of eight men, it was revealed yesterday  that the charter company operating the doomed flight was not properly  registered with the Civil Aviation Department.<\/p>\n<p>Accident Investigator of the Flight Standard Inspectorate Delvin  Major said the Acklins Blue Air Charter, which was operated by veteran  pilot Nelson Hanna, was not certified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All charter companies go through a certification process by the  Civil Aviation Department,&#8221; Major said. &#8220;In the case of this gentleman,  he did not go through that process.<\/p>\n<p>Major said investigations into the crash are  still ongoing and he could not confirm yesterday whether Hanna was  chartering the flight or giving the passengers a free ride.<\/p>\n<p>Manager of the Flight Standard Inspectorate Hubert Adderley told  reporters that Hanna may have been in violation of certain regulations.<\/p>\n<p>In  order to be certified, pilots must have proper licences,  insurance and they must also have their aircraft properly maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As aviation officials investigate the cause of the crash that ended the lives of eight men, it was revealed yesterday that the charter company operating the doomed flight was not properly registered with the Civil Aviation Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[42,93],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-airlines","tag-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}