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Podcast: Flight Safety Detectives
Episode: Charter Flight Safety Boosted with Part 135 Certification Rules β Episode 175
Description: Dollars over lives? Greg Feith and John Goglia discuss Part 135 and βPart 134 Β½β charter operations. They offer numerous aviation safety benefits of being (and using) a properly certificated charter company. It costs more but leads to safer operations.
John and Greg cover the plane crash of Lear 25A in Teterboro, New Jersey to illustrate the value of proper charter operations. They review key findings of the NTSB report, including the lack of planning for a short repositioning flight and lax enforcement of Part 135 rules.
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