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Flying Car Crashes


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It is carefully worded - "only partially damaged" would mean something is still useable, and the uninjured pilot went to the hospital with back pain before he was released.

Sounds like, pardon the pun, damage control.

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If an aircraft nicks a building taxiing back to the hangar and it takes a wing all or part off it's a crash report.  Same goes for this thing if it's on the airport still. Or if it crashes on a highway or cow pasture or mountain from the air.

 

Once it leaves the airport as a car, it's a traffic cops problem but cannot return to the air after repairs likely without an FAA airworthiness inspection and approval.

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For the NTSB, this defines an aircraft accident:

 

Aircraft accident means an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage. For purposes of this part, the definition of “aircraft accident” includes “unmanned aircraft accident,” as defined herein.

 

There are bound to be new wrinkles. If you have an accident on the way to the airport, would that count if you had "the intention of flight" once you got there?

 

A real can of worms until this sorts out.

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Its kind of funny that we live in a world where language is routinely changed to put a spin on reality.

The company rep wrote that a "situation" caused the pilot to pop the chute. In this case "situation" must mean loss of control.

If your flying the airplane a loss of control is a "PROBLEM!!!". But if your a politician, lawyer, computer tech or other spin doctor its a "situation" or "issue".

If the test pilot (who was also the CEO) would have ended up wearing his backside like a hat and the company had gone out of business, would the company rep consider his/herself being out of work a "situation" or would it be a "problem"???

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