Airplane News: YouTuber Certs Revoked, Failed Plane Swap, FAA Takes Blame for Evac, Pilot shot at

This week in airplane news, Trevor Jacobs cert has been revoked, RedBull's failed plane swap, FAA takes the blame for the capitol evacuations, Summoned Tesla hits jet, and a pilot shot at during landing.

Trevor Jacobs has lost his cert for the stunt where he parachuted out of his plane resulting in it crashing into national forest land.

He was NOT fined

He only lost his cert for 10 months

Redbull attempted their plane swap - against the wishes of the FAA.

They’d apparently requested authorization and were denied.

The plane swap did not go as planned, and one of the C182s crashed into the AZ desert.

There were no injuries.

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/plane-swap-stunt-fails-no-injuries-repoted/

The FAA has apologized for causing mayhem at the capitol by not notifying Washington DC authorities about a golden knights parachute event

The appearance of these aircraft within the DC TFR promoted evacuations of government buildings.

“The FAA’s initial review of the circumstances surrounding Wednesday night’s parachute demonstration by the U.S. Army Golden Knights at Nationals Park showed that we did not provide advance notification of this event to the U.S. Capitol Police,”

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/plane-swap-stunt-fails-no-injuries-repoted/

A driverless Tesla hit the tail of a Cirrus VisionJet in Washington State

The car appeared to be in summon mode, where it drives autonomously to the owner

From the video, we can see the collision, but not if/how much damage was done to the airplane.

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/summoned-tesla-hits-visionjet

A student pilot on landing at Gardner Municipal Airport was shot at on Monday

The FAA said the pilot of the 172 reported a bullet hole in the gas tank of the airplane

The pilot said he was about 700 feet off the ground and two minutes from landing

The pilot and instructor heard a pop and smelled fuel - luckily there was no fire.

https://news.yahoo.com/bullet-hole-found-plane-landed-205759951.html