OK, I’ve looked at the Excel copy of my log book. It looks like three of the Robbos I’d flown crashed. N701SH crashed in 1994. N40009 crashed in 1996. [NB: The Owner/Operator was not in either aircraft.] I was told that N940SM crashed while being ferried in bad weather up to Alaska, but it is still registered in Anchorage. One I’d forgotten, N504RS, was destroyed in 1992. This was the one where I showed up for my lesson, and the helicopter didn’t. But I did have four flights in it, including the intro flight. Anyway, I’d forgotten about that one.
This excursion (into terrain) is giving me the willies. Sounds like Russian roulette with a number of cylinders loaded.
I wonder what fraction of aircraft end their service lives with crashes.
I’ve always wanted to be a fly on the wall for one of those calls to the auto insurance co. - “Hello, I’d like to report my vehicle was in an accident. It was a multi-vehicle accident but no other cars (or trucks) were involved.”
Did the pilot call for a mulligan because the grass had been disturbed?
I thought I’d throw out a video of the Martin bomber B-10. It doesn’t get much attention because it was between WW-1 and WW-II but it was a major advance in aviation at the time. It was a fast bomber with an enclosed pivoting front gunner position. It says something to how fast aviation was moving because it was outdated by the time WW-II came about. The video shows some of them on floats.
Anything for the YouTube views it seems:
A popular Los Angeles YouTuber faces an explosives charge with federal prosecutors accusing him of directing a video stunt in which fireworks were blasted from an airborne helicopter and at a speeding Lamborghini.
Suk Min Choi, 24, who also goes by Alex Choi, 24, was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of causing the placement of an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced in a news release Thursday.
You can see some of the video here (Reddit).
What’s the world coming to when you can’t shoot fireworks at a Lamborghini on a dry lake bed.
It looks like the same fireworks used in air shows fired from… wait for it… airplanes.
“In this week’s episode of What Could Possibly Go Wrong? …”
Kind of aviationish — a group of members of Congress commemorated D-Day as reenactors by donning period paratroop gear and jumping out of a Dakota over France
Everyone walked away from the LZ and nobody got stuck dangling from a church tower, apparently.
Not at all surprised; don’t crosses repel those types?
This does seem overzealous, letter of the law kinda thing.
Should the authorities really go after someone like this? IANAPilot so hoped some here had a notion about this. Throw the book at these people or just let it be? I can’t figure which way it should go.
The carriage of fireworks or other pyrotechnic devices on general aviation aircraft (and commercial, but this seems GA) is prohibited by law. It takes special authorization to be allowed to do so, under very limited and controlled circumstances, and it seems that process wasn’t followed.
Doing it for “likes” isn’t a valid reason.
Throw the book at them, in my opinion. Things that can make a plane go BOOM shouldn’t really be on a plane.
Maybe I am off here but should we distinguish between general aviation and commercial aviation?
I mean, I don’t want bottlerockets in the cargo of my United Airlines flight but isn’t it on me if I put fireworks in my own private plane?
Note: This is not a hill I will fight for. Really just asking.
Can you cite the FAR/CFR?
49 CFR 175 would be the entry point I suppose. The Hazardous Materials Table in 49 CFR 172 as well.
eCFR is hard to cross-reference on mobile to really map it all out for you, unfortunately (part of me kind of wants to!) and there are exceptions for transport as cargo but I highly suspect the case in question didn’t meet those criteria.
While general aviation often has more relaxed safety regulations, the transportation of hazardous materials is governed by other regulations (not really the FAA). I’d have to put in research time to see if there ever are exceptions for general aviation but I suspect there either aren’t, or they require transportation in an inaccessible cargo area, which, if a passenger could fire them out the door/window, clearly these weren’t inaccessible.
Not my area of expertise, but in my skill set to figure out if I have to. But it’s Friday and it’s nearly impossible to do on mobile. If I ever put in the time to figure it out I’ll update (I’m curious, but not curious enough…)
How about 91.13? “Careless or reckless” operation covers a lot.
Out of curiosity…they said this guy directed what happened.
Should the charge be leveled at the person telling people to put restricted items on the aircraft or on the pilot who let it happen? (assuming they are different people)
Put another way, who should be legally responsible in this case?
Just a referral, see Walter Lord’s book “The Longest Day” or the movie of the same name to see what JRDelirious was getting at (if you already knew, then nevermind…)