Charter & Fractional
Pilots and Charter Exec Convicted over Ghosn Escape
Two former pilots and an executive with Turkish charter operator MNG were found guilty of smuggling indicted auto executive Carlos Ghosn out of Japan.

A court in Turkey yesterday convicted two former pilots and an executive formerly employed by private charter operator MNG Jet on charges of migrant smuggling for their part in the escape of indicted automotive executive Carlos Ghosn from Japan to Lebanon in late December 2019. Ghosn, who was formerly chairman of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., hid in a Bombardier Global 6000 operated by MNG to fly from Tokyo to Istanbul, before switching to the company’s Bombardier Challenger 300 for a flight to Beirut.