Originally Posted by
MikeNYC
FAA orders immediate halt to doors-off flight utilizing restraints without emergency release devices:
That was fast.
FAA can’t claim they didn’t know these flights were occurring regularly or that the circumstances of the entrapment (cold shock and harness design) were unforseen.
Worldwide, the FAA are regarded as the lead safety authority who oversee the industry, that for two decades, has killed more members of the media than all other causes combined, war zones aside.
Aerial photography can be thrilling and should continue to be available to the general public, whilst it will never be as risk free as roller coasters it can be made safer for all.
For a start, FAA should rewrite the above ban to include all flights using harnesses without quick releases, not just flights without doors.
Otherwise they are effectively condoning the same harness being used for identical flights as the accident flight only in aircraft with sliding doors.
So FAA are in effect, rubber stamping the scenario of an even more dangerous situation of inversion with doors closed and existing harness!
Mjb