Originally Posted by
Spooky 2
lifeafteraviation, you have the wrong country. We don't do that here in the US.
Actually, Lifeafteraviation is right, we *do* do that in the US. It's not common, but the precedent has been set. The was a guy a few years back who was giving someone a ride in a biplane (Waco, I think) someplace like Wisconsin, or Michigan, that part of the country. Anyway, he was flying low along a river and hit a crossing powerline. Plane ended up upside down in the river and his passenger died. He wound up going to jail for the accident. According to AOPA it was the first time that pilot had gotten a criminal conviction for an aircraft accident. But, that genie is out of the bottle now. If you consciously chose to violate the FARs, and that violation causes someone's death, you just might wind up in jail. It happens, even in the US.