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Office of Inspector General |
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| Title: | Mechanic Placed on Probation for Lying About Aircraft Inspection |
| Date: | November 19, 2001 |
| Type: | Investigation |
| Summary: | Melvin Morris Kernick, of Oakland, CA, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Oakland, CA for falsely certifying that maintenance he had done on a private plane was reviewed by a certified inspector. Kernick pleaded guilty August 13 to charges of falsely representing that an annual inspection had been performed on a privately owned Aerocommander aircraft, located in Danbury, CT, by signing the name of an FAA certified inspector in the plane’s logbook. He was sentenced to 3 years’ supervised probation and ordered to pay $5,870 in restitution. |