Decently sized plane was stolen, did many loops, and flew around just fine for more than an hour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Horizon_Air_Q400_incident
All by a guy with zero flight experience but also credited playing video games
All by a guy with zero flight experience but also credited playing video games
>About 1 hour and 15 minutes after takeoff, Russell died by intentionally crashing the aircraft on lightly populated Ketron Island in Puget Sound.
I suppose it may not count if it was an intentional crash, but who knows if he would've landed it safely if he didn't want to crash it.
Pretty interesting that he managed to pull off maneuvers like that without having any experience flying:
>Near the end of the flight, the aircraft was seen performing a barrel roll over Puget Sound, recovering a mere ten feet (three meters) over the water. A veteran pilot said the maneuver "seemed pretty well executed, without either stalling or pulling the wings off."
>[Horizon Air CEO Gary Beck] said the aerial maneuvers were "incredible" and that he "did not know how [Russell] achieved the experience that he did." During his conversation with air traffic control, Russell said he "[knew] what [he was] doing a little bit" because he had experience playing video games.
edit: lmao you're the CTO. cool site bro