News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says. Parent comment

Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by jffry on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:11PM (#31105029)
In 1984, NASA and the FAA deliberately crashed a remote-piloted Boeing 720 as a test of various safety technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstratio...

In 2012, a team of television studios crashed a Boeing 727 in Mexico (to film footage) because US authorities would not permit the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experime...

So I'm guessing that outside of very specific scenarios, you would have a hard time getting permission to deliberately crash a plane anywhere in the US.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by Retric on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:46PM (#31105222)
Yea, I doubt you actually need a specific permit to crash an aircraft in a controlled fashion rather than everything else like operating a huge drone etc. The issue is the YouTuber essentially abandoned control of the aircraft so it could have landed on anything.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by jffry on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:52PM (#31105250)
Yes, but the comment I was replying to was discussing scenarios other than the one in the article.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by aidenscott2016 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @06:22AM (#31107713)
Do you know what the source of the crash in this video [1] is?

I’ve wanted to know ever since I saw the same clip in a few films, including Airplane 2

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQpQabwf8U

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by p_l on Thursday April 21, 2022 @07:58AM (#31108323)
It's from FAA crash test involving DC-7 https://youtu.be/Z-So3btcvCQ
[ Parent | on HN ]