This is not some absurd thing. I fly an expirimental plane that I bought off of sombody who “built it themselves”. There’s an airshow every year in Wisconsin where about 10,000 aircraft fly in and a good chunk of those are expirimental. Aircraft kits are very very easy to build these days.
Yeah without.knowing more about the craft itself this is just a click bait headline.
This gets more absurd every new story lol
right? the more that comes out about oceangate, the more baffled i am that this is a real company that actually generated revenue; i mean the context & details surrounding this story have become ironic enough to be almost cartoonish at this point. even the name of the company in itself seems like some sort of foreshadowing (well, if we’re going by past uses of the -gate suffix)
They weren’t a profitable company though, according to the late CEO. And the sub imploded on its 5th voyage.
Well, building your own plane exists for years, there is big communities and forums etc nowadays, but even in the 50s you were able to do it, buy kits, etc.
Stockton Rush is a killer and should be charged posthumously with four counts of negligent homicide. He’s just as culpable, if not more, that someone who gets behind the wheel drink and kills their passengers.
Is charging someone posthumously with a crime even a thing in the USA? This question and answer suggest that only civil suits can be brought against the person’s estate posthumously, not criminal charges:
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/87138/can-someone-be-prosecuted-posthumously
