Me parece completamente necesario mencionar que "deadly loophole" se refiere a "carrier", es decir, "airline", la aerolínea responsable del fatídico vuelo 708. En principio, si ese vuelo partió es que era legal, aunque la compañía responsable se hubiese aprovechado de las deficiencias en la legislación de EEUU para fletarlo.

http://qh33983c.qualityserver.de/nachrichten-2006-11/7274459...
On August 16, 2005, the inevitable happened. Flight 708 from Panama to Martinique crashed in Venezuela, killing all 160 passengers and crew.
”We believe the defendants, including those with operations in the U.S., took advantage of U.S. laws to form a DEADLY LOOPHOLE CARRIER. Unless we act to hold these parties accountable, we will see this disaster repeated by encouraging loophole international passenger service, said Motley Rice attorney Mary Schiavo. ”Here we have Nevada corporations with agents and offices in Florida, Texas and California, buying and leasing old aircraft, to an airline which because of safety lapses was grounded. It even lost its insurance. Despite these dangerous conditions, two U.S. companies contracted with that grounded uninsured carrier to fly passengers in other countries. We seek to hold them accountable under the very same U.S. laws we believe they used and abused to run this deadly loophole airline.