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Pilots jailed in Guinea during fuel stop, families plead for US intervention

Summary by aerotime.aero
Two US pilots of a Gulfstream business jet have been detained in Guinea for nearly six weeks after what they describe as a routine fuel stop that turned into an armed confrontation on the ramp in Conakry.  Fabio Espinal Nunez, 33, of New Jersey, and Brad Schlenker, 63, of Illinois, were operating a Gulfstream IV on a charter flight carrying a Brazilian family from Suriname to Dubai when they landed at Conakry’s Ahmed Sékou Touré International Ai…
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aerotime.aero broke the news in on Wednesday, February 11, 2026.
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