Thanks for the inside info. Maybe in another 20 years everything will be declassified and disclosed. I'm sure the family members of the shot down crew would like to learn more of what happened.

The FAA has rules stating that nav lights are to be turned on at sunset. Except the FAA has never explained exactly when sunset occurs.

The FAA wants nav lights turned on when an aircraft is moving at night. An FAA inspector dinged a pilot who was pushing a plane back into its tiedown spot after a night flight because the plane was in motion but the nav lights weren't turned on.

A new propeller was designed that had the blade tips bent back. An FAA inspector saw a plane with such a propeller and redtagged the plane because the inspector thought the prop had hit something which bent the blades. This one I think actually happened at Montgomery Field in San Diego maybe 20 years ago. Yet the story is still told to this day.

The FAA - a government buracracy doing.......something.