Charles H. Henderson v. Federal Aviation Administration National Transportation Safety Board

OPINION

POOLE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Charles H. Henderson, a helicopter pilot, challenges the National Transportation Safety Board’s sixty-day suspension of his commercial pilot license. The Board’s action stemmed from Henderson’s allegedly unsafe operation of his helicopter while transporting television journalists to photograph a derailed train in Corvallis, Oregon. We now affirm in part and reverse in part, and remand for a new penalty determination.

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Charles Henderson, a commercial helicopter pilot, provided helicopter services to a local television station in Springfield, Oregon.…