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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by unosixcorewayy on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:50PM (#31105240)
>if you wanted to crash a plane for a scene in a movie, could you do so?

It has been done. I'm pretty sure Howard Hughes wasn't cited for crashing his plane while filming Hell's Angels.

Maybe he should have been, though. Even though he survived the crash and it was an accident, four people died doing the stunts for that movie.

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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by iamtedd on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:52AM (#31106667)
Hell's Angels was released in 1930. The FAA didn't exist until 1958. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which preceded the FAA was formed in 1939. There was the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce [1] that existed between 1926 and 1934. Their handling of the 1931 Fokker F-10 [2] crash is what led to the creation of the NTSB as a separate agency. Presumably the DoC wasn't that interested in air crashes at the time. Probably understandable, considering the reliability of early aircraft.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_role_...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Transcontinental_%26_West...

(Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_role_...)

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