Youth's lack of judgment
 

FAA Seeking Video Of Teen Flying Plane Over Graduation | Baltimore News | WBAL Radio 1090 AM

This won't end well for the teen.
I'm thinking that eyewitness accounts of the type repeated at around 1+45 of the embedded video are not very accurate.

Even if they determine that he was not within very close height of anyone on the ground, it is still a deliberate attempt to disrupt the crowd and it sounds like he was doing aerobatics too. He's done as a pilot, at least for a long time.

He'll be on the "Career Questions" forum in a few years asking about how to expunge the record and get a RJ job.

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No we will see him at a press conference showing off the new apps he has design and just sold the rights to apple making him a millionaire!

Hah I trained in that airplane and know the pilot who did it. Not the brightest kid in the world.

Withholding that information from the cops is a crime. I expect you'll be calling them now right?

It's only a crime if they ask you and you mislead them.

If asked, you can refuse to talk based on the fifth amendment/Miranda, but you can't lie.

You are also not required to come forth without being asked and spill your guts just because of something you read on the internet. In certain cases (some federal felonies, some state crimes) you may be legally obligated to report the fact that a crime occurred, but they already know that in this case :rolleyes:

Knowing someone is not evidence of what he did. Actually the video shows nothing about anything. If they get a radar altitude from him, that can do him in, otherwise you can't prosecute anyone without evidence. Non-pilots estimating altitudes is worthless. They don't know 50' from 500'. Hard to believe after that many passes a camera phone didn't get him (yet).

Sounds to me like they already know who the individual is, so there's nothing left to divulge? They're simply seeking video evidence.

Wonder if someone had a Mode C track on this guy..?

The FAA is not held to a very high standard of evidentiary proof and theirs is administrative law as opposed to criminal and/or civil law. So as far as enforcing FAA rules goes, they can revoke this guy's private pilot license quite automatically. As for domestic criminal law, it's a much harder case to win and I would expect a good criminal defense lawyer could beat the rap on evidence alone, VB and Noy's comments notwithstanding.