Cockpit crew’s licences suspended by Icelandic authority.
Icelandic regulators have disciplined two pilots who carried out an unauthorised low pass in a Boeing 757-200 while conducting a scheduled flight from Frankfurt.
The Icelandair aircraft was bound for Reykjavik on 11 April.
But it descended from the normal altitude to pass over Vestmannaeyjar airport on the Westman Islands – apparently below 2,000ft – before climbing away.
The Icelandic Transport Authority has determined that the flight was “not conducted in compliance with applicable aviation regulations”.
It has decided to suspend temporarily the licences of the two pilots – one for 24 months and the other for 12 months – but is also referring one of the cases to the police.
The authority adds that it has still to conclude an assessment of the airline’s potential responsibility in the matter.
“No decision has yet been made regarding the operator,” it says.
According to the authority, the decisions are subject to appeal to the country’s ministry of infrastructure.
Icelandair had previously stated that the flight was not authorised and was carried out without the knowledge of the carrier’s management.
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