[Rb ver. 2.0]

"On the final pass, a pair of tennis shoes and a football dropped from the single-engine Cessna 172 into the end zone, officials said"

Does that count as a field goal or a touch back?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

There’s got to be video of this somewhere.

[laotzu]

Gee dad....aren't you glad you paid for all those lessons?

Remember how proud you were when he did his first solo?

[mtbopfuyn]

Wow, 10 whole days suspension!!! The horrors!!!

All three should be spending the next 10 years behind bars.

[Liberty Valance]

Here's a Cessna 172

[chrisser]

A 17 year old can rent an airplane, to fly at night without an adult?

Can he even do that with a car?

[VeniVidiVici]

Does that count as a field goal or a touch back?

If NFL rules, they'd be cited for celebrating in the endzone.

[dawn53]

Detained at the airport for questioning were the 17-year-old pilot who had rented the plane and his passengers, another 17-year-old Hopewell student and an 18-year-old Hopewell graduate.

My nephews had their pilot's licenses when they were teens, but I find it odd that you can rent a plane (as a minor) but you can't rent an car until you're 25.

[gridlock]

The question is, was it a Double-Dog Black-Eyed Dare, because if it was the pilot really had no choice in the matter, and should face no punishment.

[Rennes Templar]

I’d sign these kids up for the Air Force tactical fighter squadron. These kids have the right stuff!

[Turbopilot]

Does that count as a field goal or a touch back?

Sounds like they lost possession of the ball in their own end zone. Did the other team recover?

[Thrownatbirth]

The last time I saw a Cessna 172 buzz a football stadium, it stalled out and crashed in the upper deck of Memorial Stadium ('76 Colts-Steelers playoff game).

My friends and I were drowning our sorrows about five sections over while we casually watched the plane sputter, spin and settle on a bunch of empty seats. No fires, no explosions. Best line: "Hey, he better have a ticket stub."

[Caramelgal]

Fortunately for all, the ill conceived prank didn’t end badly.

Buzzing a stadium is a very bad idea.

Baltimore – Memorial Stadium – Baltimore Colts vs the Pittsburg Steelers

One highly unusual incident was the crash of an airplane on the stadium premises. This occurred on December 19, 1976, just minutes after the conclusion of an NFL playoff game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. A small plane buzzed the stadium, and then crashed into the upper rows of the upper tier of seating. Fortunately for the spectators in that area, the Steelers had won the game handily (40-14), and most of the fans had already exited the stadium by the time the game ended. There were no serious injuries, and pilot Donald Kroner was arrested for violating plane safety regulations – Wikipedia.

My brother was at this game and had been sitting only one section away from where the plane crashed. My mother and I had watched the game on TV and then the news reports came on. Since this was BCP (before cell phones) we had no way of contacting my brother to see if he was OK. When my brother came home we were much relieved. He hadn’t heard about the crash but wasn’t all that surprised as this idiot had been buzzing the stadium for much of the fourth quarter.

A few years later some idiot in a private jet buzzed our neighborhood early one Sunday morning. It scared the Bejesus out of us. I was inside and heard this terrible roar and the house actually shook; dishes rattled and pictures nearly came off the wall. My mom and I dove to the floor. For a minute we thought WWIII had started and it was a Russian missile attack.

I went outside to see what was going on and he came back again and I saw him flying at ridiculous speed within a few yards of the roof tops.

The pilot was found and arrested and he lost his pilot’s license. He was some very wealthy guy who lived in N. Baltimore County horse country who had a private landing strip on his property and was going on a joy ride with his new “toy”.

[Samurai_Jack]

Recruit them for Top Gun!

[Squawk 8888]

I’m not sure about the NFL rules, but in Canada it would be a single point- field goals have to be kicked off the ground.

[Bernard]

Does that count as a field goal or a touch back?

A field goal has to cross through the goal posts, so this one is probably a touchback.

Based on the ages of the participants, it's also possibly the first story in a long line of "Hold my Red Bull and watch this" stories.

[Wil H]

The FAA will probably pull his license for busting minimums over an inhabited area.

[Gorzaloon]

"He WAS a registered pilot and knows the consequences of this.” "

[The Duke]

Suspend the pilot from school ... ten send him to the astronaut program at NASA. :)

"Who's the best pilot I ever knew?..."