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FAA suspends licenses of two pilots involved in failed Red Bull stunt
The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of two pilots for their "careless" and "reckless" conduct during a failed midair stunt last month in Arizona, officials said this week. (news.yahoo.com) Más...Maybe I’m a little conservative, but why couldn’t they have “safety pilots” in each plane.? The actual stunt would be the same. Bloated egos lose again.
It would have added too much of a Safety factor to it... They wanted to be on the Edge and show the world that they knew what they were doing, but the world showed them otherwise!
Fewer people to risk having licenses revoked. ;)
That's how they practiced it up to the actual event. And from my understanding, it was the fact they demonstrated through multiple flights it could be done successfully with a safety pilot in each plane that led to the FAA denying their exemption. But that would have removed the "cool factor" from the stunt.
That was supposed to be a practice event by my understanding.