A former flight attendant for a Canadian airline posed as a commercial pilot and as a current flight attendant to obtain hundreds of free flights from US airlines, authorities said.
Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday following his extradition.
According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used...
Former flight attendant posed as pilot for hundreds of free trips on US airlines
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Source: scmp.com

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