What should flight crews headed into foreign countries’ airspace know in order to protect themselves from criminalization in the event of an accident or incident? Business aviation flight crews tend to be more exposed than their airline counterparts because they fly just about everywhere and tend not to have the luxury of large infrastructures like major airlines, pilot unions, the Air Transport Association and International Air Transport Association supporting them.

It is impossible to establish a “safety culture” with the threat of criminalization hanging over employees’ heads.

There are so many helicopters in Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, that The Guardian newspaper in Manchester, England, has termed it “the real-life South American episode of the ‘Jetsons,’” the 1960s animated send-up of future life.