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Budget airline FlyGlobeSpan, which flew a faulty jet 3,000 miles from Liverpool to New York, has been fined £5,000. Budget airline FlyGlobeSpan, which flew a faulty jet 3,000 miles from Liverpool to New York after it had been struck by lightning, has been fined £5,000.
Globespan Airways Ltd pleaded guilty to using the Boeing 757 with two engine thrust indicators out of action. Despite knowing two engine pressure radio indicators (EPRs) were out of action, Globespan Airways Ltd allowed the Boeing 757 to take off last June.
Hours before the incident the crew found the failure and had to adjust the throttle with the help of another gauge and a handbook. The crew found the failure on an earlier flight, but the plane was cleared to fly later the same day.
Southwark Crown Court fined the company, which admitted two summonses under the Air Navigation Order 2005. The company admitted two summonses under the Air Navigation Order 2005.
It admitted flying the plane without a valid certificate of air worthiness or a valid operator's certificate and was fined at London's Southwark Crown Court.
The Edinburgh-based airline Globespan Airways Ltd, which trades as FlyGlobeSpan, had breached Civil Aviation regulations by declaring the aircraft "serviceable" to fly later that day on a flight returning to America via Knock in Ireland.
The prosecution was brought by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).