Angry families to meet fraud squad, minister and aviation authority

The families of students on a pilot training course which folded earlier this month are to meet the Garda fraud squad tomorrow.

Representatives of the Pilot Training College Action Group, formed in the aftermath of the termination of the courses at the Florida Institute of Technology which left students deep in debt and their studies incomplete, will also meet with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) and Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar in a bid to get the students back in the air.

Yesterday as many as 60 members of the group, comprising students and their families, held a demonstration outside Leinster House to highlight their plight, with Minister for Public Works Brian Hayes claiming the situation was “an outrage”.