Overview
- Sixty former students, represented by the union Parat, have filed a damages suit this weekend against Espen Høiby and several senior executives over the Pilot Flight Academy’s insolvency.
- The school declared insolvency earlier in 2026, leaving roughly 160 students without places and about 40 employees jobless after many had paid roughly 250,000 Norwegian kroner in advance.
- Plaintiffs say Høiby ran the school through a web of companies — including Hightown AS, AAP Group and PFA Holding — and therefore should bear personal responsibility for the losses.
- Høiby’s lawyer rejects the claims, saying he never held a board seat at the academy or represented it to students, while the long‑time CEO Per Mikael Eriksson is also named as a defendant.
- In June 2026 the insolvency administrator Kåre Jølberg produced a critical report that he passed to police citing a late bankruptcy filing and possible concealment of financial trouble, and prosecutors have not yet decided whether to open a criminal investigation.