your logic has failed completely Im afraid
1) There has been no suggestion that he wasnt healthy enough to fly
2) Even if he had a fully upto date licence, that wouldnt have stopped the accident from happening
Irrelevant having a medical is not the only reason you have to renew a licence and not have a 'piece of paper' or rating forever.
(Im ignoring your example because its completely over the top, and totally different mowing down bystanders in comparison to people who had agreed to be passangers - and according to reports were enjoying the way they were being flown)
Easy to rectify.
I'm driving your kids to school and crash and kill them all, my licence had run out. You let me take your kids to school because you didn't know it had expired. Would you still be happy that it wasn't so bad because I had previously held a piece of paper?
You or anyone else (here) cant state conclusively that the cause of the crash wouldnt have happened anyway
Rubbish, his licence had run out. If he hadn't have flown I'm pretty much 100% certain the crash couldn't happen. Unless you have some way to dispute that?
The Fact is both his licence and type rating had expired, he should not have been in the air and he might not even had enough hours on type to even maintain his rating. Hence the whole reason you renew it and not just fly whenever you like because you used to hold a rating.
It's irrelevant to know if friends or family had flown with him before it's not their responsibility to know if he's flying within the laws of the ANO.
Edit, I read this on Pprune and it pretty much tells you all you need to know about this not being an isolated incident in regards to following the rules...
The AAIB report also quoted:
1) At the time of the accident, the pilot did not hold a valid flying licence, or a valid AS350B2 type rating. He had been issued with a UK PPL(H), which was valid for five years but which expired on 14 February 2005...
2) Further scrutiny revealed the pilot had allowed his AS350B2 type rating to expire on each occasion before renewing it; yet he continued to fly the helicopter during these periods of invalidity...
3) The pilot held a Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) Class Two medical certificate (validity period two years), which was valid at the time of the accident. However, there were two separate periods between November 2003 and March 2006, totalling 110 days, during which the pilot did not hold a valid medical certificate, his current one having expired: the pilot continued to fly G-CBHL during these periods....
4) Therefore, the lack of a current type rating was relevant to the continued
safe operation of the helicopter....
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