Harry G. Copsey v. National Transportation Safety Board, and Federal Aviation Administration

OWEN, Senior District Judge.

Petitioner Harry C. Copsey, an airline transport pilot, appeals the sixty-day suspension of his pilot’s certificate by the National Transportation Safety Board (“NTSB”) for violations of Federal Aviation Regulations (“FAR”): 1) operating an aircraft on a commercial cargo-carrying flight from Colorado to New Mexico when one of the plane’s propeller blades was so damaged as to make the plane unairworthy and 2) failing to enter that condition promptly in the aircraft’s maintenance log record.

Copsey had flown his twin-engine cargo plane into the Colorado Springs…