{"id":1452861,"date":"2022-04-25T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1452861"},"modified":"2022-04-25T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:00:48","slug":"pilots-try-to-swap-planes-mid-air-it-doesnt-go-as-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pilots-try-to-swap-planes-mid-air-it-doesnt-go-as-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots Try To Swap Planes Mid-Air \u2014 It Doesn\u2019t Go As Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpilots-try-to-swap-planes-mid-air-it-doesnt-go-as-planned%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1452861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-150471246.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For nearly three hours on Sunday night, Hulu hyped a \u201cfirst-ever\u201d attempt by two pilots to fly side by side, jump out of their planes, skydive to each other\u2019s planes, land inside and pull out of free fall.<\/p>\n<p>It did <em>not<\/em> go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The two pilots, cousins Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington, took off from an airport near Eloy, Arizona. They flew to 12,000 feet and then deployed specially designed air brakes intended to control the planes\u2019 free-fall descent.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where things went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootage shows the moment the two Cessna 182 planes nosedive before the pilots jump out,\u201d The Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/5194939\/plane-swap-wrong-red-bull-spirals-out-control\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThey were about 12,000 feet in the air when they jumped out.\u00a0But, one of the aircraft is seen spiraling out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedBull?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RedBull<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlaneSwap?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlaneSwap<\/a> in Arizona was crazy! Didn&#8217;t go as planned but luckily everyone is alright! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f9cpRclYtT\">pic.twitter.com\/f9cpRclYtT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Tevis (@AaronTevis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronTevis\/status\/1518404583172706306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aikins successfully skydived into the other plane and landed it safely, while Farrington did not attempt to board the spiraling plane in its nosedive and instead just parachuted back to Earth. That plane had a parachute and Aikens said it deployed and the plane landed without incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just went and instead of stopping in that 90-degree dive, it just kept going and got over on his back,\u201d Farrington told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/04\/24\/plane-swap-stunt-unsuccessful-arizona\/7434361001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USA Today<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re just happy everybody\u2019s here and good and all that stuff, but just disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aikins said: \u201cThis is the best outcome of a bummer situation, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I left Andy a good plane. I\u2019m trying to think of what else I could have done to make it better for him when I left,\u201d said Aikins, who noted the two pilots were able to test everything beforehand except the dive itself. \u201cWe do what we can to prepare for this stuff and we hope it never happens. This is the best outcome of a bummer situation, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the pilot added: Aikins said \u201cwe are going to go back and figure this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the \u201cplane swap,\u201d Red Bull touted the stunt on its website: \u201cOn Sunday, April 24th, Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington will go down in history as the first pilots to take off in one aircraft and land in another after sending their airplanes into a nosedive and jumping out of them!\u201d promoters said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an event that\u2019s hardly been conceptualised, much less attempted. Never in the history of flight has a pilot taken off in one plane and landed in another. Yet this milestone features not just one, but two pilots who are going to simultaneously perform a feat that may last all of 40 seconds but will be an engineering marvel that will have taken the better part of a year to execute,\u201d Red Bull said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/utm.io\/ueuP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly three hours on Sunday night, Hulu hyped a \u201cfirst-ever\u201d attempt by two pilots to fly side by side, jump out of their planes, skydive to each other\u2019s planes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1480382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}