An experimental plane that crashed in Gila Bend over the weekend, killing a person on board, has people wondering how these planes are certified to fly.
The crash killed one person and another was flown to the hospital for treatment.Jack Norris has decades of flying experience and says people get into experimental planes mainly because they want to fly something they’ve built. There's also a financial component.Wings and a motor classify it as a plane, but anything experimental comes with a risk."There’s always risk in flying. Experimental planes now are much more sophisticated than 30 years ago," Norris said.
Norris put it in terms of vehicles – comparing a motorcycle to a pick-up truck."If you're going fast, and you don’t have an envelope around you but the air and maybe a few pieces of steel, it’s more of a risk if you have to put an airplane down," Norris said.He says it’s an extensive process to get an aircraft certified by the Federal Aviation Administration .LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FAA'S "EXPERIMENTAL" CLASSIFICATION HERE"It’s pass-fail.
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