ABSTRACT
The court concluded that the matter under investigation is within the authority of the issuing agency, the information sought is reasonably relevant to that inquiry, and the requests are too indefinite. However, the court’s analysis and rationale also provide insight into some of the things the FAA can do, and when it can do them, in an illegal charter investigation. The FAA also alleged that Humes McCoy lacked an approved pilot training programme and a hazardous materials training programme and that it had not provided the required initial and recurrent hazardous materials training for all crewmembers. The US case law contrasts just nicely with Russian case law in terms of penalty sums. In Gotovtsev case the Defendant has conducted for-hire flights without a license from June to November 2017, with the aim to make a profit. The FAA compliance and enforcement programme provides that the only realistic way to reduce a civil penalty is corrective action and inability to pay.
