Who could get in trouble for landing a floatplane in a state park lake?
This happened in a podcast I'm listening to.
A guy needs to get from a state park back to the city super quick. His car no longer works and so a handy dandy assistant person wrangles up a floatplane to fly down to the state park where he is stuck and land in the lake. The guy wades out to the plane and off they go...
This, of course, gets the interest of some state agency who very much wants to know wtf was going on.
Edit: no emergency, like someone was hurt. Just a guy in a big rush to get back to the city
Of the three people involved who could get in legal trouble:
- The stuck guy
- Seems like no (?), he just got into the plane... didn't arrange the pickup or know about it beforehand
- The assistant
- Putting aside being able to find a floatplane and pilot who'd do this super quick, also seems like a no (?) -- she may have asked for/paid for something questionable/illegal, but didn't do the questionable/illegal thing
- The pilot
- Yes, if doing this with a floatplane is illegal, then he's surely guilty of that.
Location: Washington state