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The state or whomever should charge him for littering. Though I imagine they'll probably get him for insurance fraud.
by MerelyMortal 5y ago
The state or whomever should charge him for littering.
Though I imagine they'll probably get him for insurance fraud.
- intunderflow 5y agoI would have thought there would be a felony for intentionally crashing an aircraft
- daniel-cussen 5y agoThere would have to be harm...I mean I think so. Like if he made sure nobody got hurt? No damage, no risk?
- MerelyMortal 5y ago"Reckless endangerment" doesn't necessarily have to have harm done to be a crime. The pilot could not have known with 100% certainty that the plane wouldn't land on a hiker or wildlife.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoOh that makes sense. And it's an airplane, the ultimate sword of Damocles hanging over people's heads by a horse hair, yeah this was like a fucking kamikaze. And like the other commenters say, there are means to do aircraft destructions properly, with permission and so forth, meaning in that case with 0% chance of killing living things and therefore no felony.
- brewdad 5y agoIf he stayed with the plane all the way to the ground in control he could make that argument. The minute he relenquished control of the plane, there was risk it would go somewhere he didn't expect.
- ericd 5y agoWhy would you need to make that criminal? It's already a crime to do something criminal like hurting someone else whether it's with a plane, a car, or a knife.
- pcbro141 5y agoBecause it's reckless to crash a plane. You can kill people on the ground.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThere are a million specific reckless things you can do that are as bad or worse. They're not specifically illegal. And they're likely to remain that way unless someone manages to do one of them and dodge all other criminal prosecution.
- falcolas 5y agoIts his-ish property. The FAA got him for the flying equivalent of reckless driving, but its not a felony to crash your car. Its just expensive as hell, and the knock on fines will only add onto it.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoThe felony will be under reckless endangerment or some other statute for people who intentionally do criminally stupid things that could or have caused serious harm/damage. You’re not getting off on some technicality where there is no specific law against a specific action. There are broad statutes to specifically nail people who think like that. Edit: There is a lovely idiom for this—“play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.
- mardifoufs 5y agoI think he crashed in the middle of an unpopulated desert-ish area. I'm not sure what's the criteria is for reckless endangerment though, and maybe the intent matters more than the end result.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoI don’t think it matters where the plane crashed if he wasn’t in control of it.
- bombcar 5y agoLos Padres National Forest isn’t the Mojave Desert.
- zinekeller 5y ago> National Forest Yikes, a federal property no less.
- Breza 5y agoIf you look at a map of the area, he ditched the plane in the exact place you'd pick if you were trying to stay away from large groups of people. That's one of the many aspects that suggest this was an intentional crash.
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- fsckboy 5y ago>The state or whomever should charge him for littering. TFA says he recovered the wreckage and disposed of it
- MerelyMortal 5y agoHe littered and left his litter there for several days.
- andkenneth 5y agoHe should be very glad that it didn't cause a forest fire. Reckless burning can be a 2-3 year felony in California.