Matt Molnar
2009-02-04, 01:51 PM
Charter company executives are indicted in '05 crash at Teterboro Airport (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/charter_company_executives_are.html)
by Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday February 04, 2009, 9:48 AM
Federal criminal charges were brought today against the air charter service that four years ago operated an overloaded corporate jet crashed on takeoff at Teterboro Airport.
Six executives who ran Platinum Jet Management LLC of Fort Lauderdale, Fl., were charged in a scheme to run a charter operation that took to the air on fraudulent documents.
John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerAerial view of an '05 plane crash near the end of the Teterboro Airport runway .
Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. said the company -- which held itself out as a luxury, high-end charter service -- falsified flight records and routinely overloaded planes with fuel at airports where it was cheaper to top-off the tanks. The company was charged with misrepresenting itself to customers as a certified charter operation. [Full Article (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/charter_company_executives_are.html)]
:arrow: Full Indictment (http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/press/files/pdffiles/Platinum%20Jet%20Indictment.pdf) [PDF]
by Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday February 04, 2009, 9:48 AM
Federal criminal charges were brought today against the air charter service that four years ago operated an overloaded corporate jet crashed on takeoff at Teterboro Airport.
Six executives who ran Platinum Jet Management LLC of Fort Lauderdale, Fl., were charged in a scheme to run a charter operation that took to the air on fraudulent documents.
John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerAerial view of an '05 plane crash near the end of the Teterboro Airport runway .
Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. said the company -- which held itself out as a luxury, high-end charter service -- falsified flight records and routinely overloaded planes with fuel at airports where it was cheaper to top-off the tanks. The company was charged with misrepresenting itself to customers as a certified charter operation. [Full Article (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/charter_company_executives_are.html)]
:arrow: Full Indictment (http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/press/files/pdffiles/Platinum%20Jet%20Indictment.pdf) [PDF]