The PEGASO Team of the Las Palmas Civil Guard Command, together with the Fiscal and Border Section of the Gran Canaria Airport, has clarified a case of flagrant transgression of aeronautical regulations. The owner of an aircraft, in an act of reckless recidivism, made multiple crossings between the Canary archipelago, the Iberian Peninsula and the African continent, lacking a valid registration certificate. This conduct, which poses a serious threat to the safety of the airspace, prompted the competent authorities to decree the immediate immobilization of the aircraft. However, in a desperate attempt to evade the consequences of his actions, the owner resorted to submitting falsified documentation.
Suspicions began a couple of months ago when the Civil Guard received information that an aircraft was making suspicious flights, so a thorough documentary and physical inspection of the aircraft was carried out, and the agents were able to verify that said aircraft had made different flights between the Canary Islands, the Peninsula and Africa, with the registration cancelled since July 2020.
In addition, it did not have a valid Airworthiness Certificate, as well as a total lack of aeromechanical maintenance of said aircraft, among other breaches of current legislation, and it could be concluded, among other hypotheses, that the true intention of the owner was to "take" the aircraft out of our country to sell it in some country on the African continent.
As a consequence of the serious infractions of the regulations, and as a result of the request for collaboration by the State Aviation Safety Agency (AESA), for the interception of the same, this authority proceeded to decree the extraordinary measure of immobilization of the aircraft.
For the resolution of the case, the active collaboration of AESA, ENAIRE and the aerodrome manager has been fundamental, not only in the advice but also in the verification with the Authorities of Mali, that the documentation delivered by the owner of the aircraft was not in the official records of Civil Aviation of Mali, so it is presumed that it was a falsification of documents.
For all the above, the appropriate procedures were carried out, charging the owner of the aircraft with a crime of Falsification of a Public Document, sending them to the Investigating Court of Telde, with the aircraft sealed at the disposal of AESA.
As a result of these services, the priority objective of the PEGASO Teams is achieved, which is none other than guaranteeing air safety by neutralizing risks.
