What's new: A federal fraud trial scheduled to begin last week for the operators of a charter flight service whose jet crashed on takeoff from Teterboro Airport five years ago, injuring 14 people, has been pushed back to May 11 to give the defense and prosecutor more time to prepare.

Background: Six executives and employees of Platinum Jet Management were indicted in February 2009 in an alleged scheme to profit by violating federal safety regulations and concealing dangerous fueling and weight distribution practices, which investigators found contributed to the Teterboro crash.

A seventh defendant, one of the pilots at the controls of the ill-fated flight, was added in a superseding indictment returned in November. He is accused of doctoring flight logs and flying without the required Federal Aviation Administration qualifications.

Two of the executives have pleaded guilty of conspiracy to defraud customers and impede the FAA and could bolster the government's case at trial.

The company's president and CEO, Michael Brassington, faces the most serious charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft in flight. He is accused of having a direct role in the Feb. 2, 2005, crash by telling the flight officer months earlier that the plane weighed 1,000 pounds less than it actually did, thereby causing it to be over-fueled.

Unable to lift off, the twin-engine jet overran the runway, struck two cars on Route 46, and slammed into a warehouse before catching fire. The two pilots and two Paterson men in a car were seriously injured.