Thomas Salme, a Swedish Pilot Who Worked for 13 Years on a Forged Word License: "No One Was Injured, No One Died"

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He started in SAS simulators, got a job after a test in Dublin and came to gather more than 10,000 hours of flight before being arrested in Schiphol in 2010

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Thomas Salme dreamed of becoming a pilot. But without money for training, he took matters into his own hands. Shortly after, he flew over a million passengers. “The worst part was that I had to lie,” says Thomas Salme. It was in the late 1990s that a young Stockholm guy realized that his dream of becoming a commercial pilot was […]