Fake Pilot 冒牌飛行員

By Geraldine Coughlan, Holland

媒體英語會帶大家一起學習BBC撰稿人在報道世界大事時常用到的單詞和短語。

Background: 荷蘭當局逮捕了一名瑞典籍飛行員。他用偽造飛機駕駛執照為多個航空公司提供服務長達13年。這名41歲的飛行員定居米蘭，他累計了最少1萬個飛行小時，橫跨英國，意大利和比利時的領空。在收到瑞典官方的通報后，星期二晚上官方人員在阿姆斯特丹斯希普霍爾機場拘留了他。當時他正準備登機駕駛載有101名乘客的飛機前往土耳其首都安卡拉。

 

 

Dutch police said the pilot was arrested in the cockpit.

He is suspected of flying with a forged licence for more than a decade.

The police said he had once had a commercial pilot licence but it had expired and it never qualified him for passenger flights.

He claimed to have worked for various companies in Belgium, Britain and Italy for over 13 years, logging more than 10,000 flight hours.

The Turkish airline Corendon said the pilot had worked for the company for two years and Corendon had cooperated with police and had a reserve pilot prepared to take over the flight.

When he was arrested, the pilot said he was relieved that his misdeeds had come to light and he tore the captain's stripes off his uniform.