Curtis Kekoa, Jr. v. National Transportation Safety Board Federal Aviation Administration

42 F.3d 1400 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Curtis KEKOA, Jr., Petitioner, v. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD; Federal Aviation Administration, Respondents. No. 93-70689. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted Nov. 14, 1994. * Decided Nov. 18, 1994. Before: WALLACE, Chief Judge, GOODWIN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Curtis Kekoa, Jr., petitions pro se for review of the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) decision affirming the suspension of Kekoa's airline transport pilot certificate. Kekoa acknowledges that he violated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations by taking off from an airport runway without air traffic control (ATC) clearance, but contends that he reasonably relied on the airplane captain's mistaken statement that clearance had been given. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 49 U.S.C.App. Sec. 1486(a), and we deny the petition for review. 3 The FAA Administrator ordered Kekoa's pilot…