Originally Posted by
N9373M
He does bring up a valid point. MOA's are (VFR world) "see and avoid", and if he was not talking to anyone, he could fly right on through, oblivious. Maybe there was a NOTAM?
Being alive certainly trumps being legal.
Not to split hairs, but he was trying to fly through a Warning Area, not a MOA. Right at the beginning (0:10), the controller says "...there's stuff going on in the Warning Area..." The pilot is the one who keeps calling it a MOA, which it isn't.