A somewhat (too) daredevil challenge.
On Sunday April 24, the Americans Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington, in partnership with Red Bull, tried to be the very first in the world to make a "plane swap", an exchange of planes in full flight.
The two pilots set off aboard two Cessna 182s, above a desert plain in Arizona in the United States.
Alone at the controls, more than 4,000 m high, they positioned the planes in a controlled dive, before soaring into the void, leaving the aircraft completely empty.
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Luke Aikins managed to reach Andy Arrington's plane.
The scene, which was filmed, is impressive.
We can see the pilot, in free fall, entering the cockpit of the plane, taking over the controls and straightening it to make it land gently.
Andy Arrington was less fortunate.
The Cessna he was trying to reach spun and crashed to the ground.
The stuntman landed by parachute and was not injured.
Contacted by the USA Today newspaper, the FAA, the American administration in charge of aviation, announced that it had opened an investigation into this challenge which it had not authorized.