Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington partially failed in their attempt to be the first pair of pilots to successfully swap planes in midair. The duo attempted the dangerous stunt on Sunday (April 24, 2022) over The Arizona Desert. While the pilots were cruising at an altitude of 12,000 feet, they engaged the airbrake system in their specially designed Cessna 182 aircraft and exited their cockpits. “I thought I left Andy a good plane. I’m trying to think of what else I could have done to make it better for him when I left,” Aikins said. “We do what we can to prepare for this stuff, and we hope it never happens. This is the best outcome of a bummer situation, really.” “The FAA will investigate Sunday evening’s attempted Red Bull Plane Swap in Arizona,” the FAA said in a statement. “The agency on Friday denied the organizer’s request for an exemption from federal regulations that cover the safe operation of an aircraft.” Luckily, nobody was injured during the stunt. “It just went, and instead of stopping in that 90-degree dive, it just kept going and got over on his back,” Farrington said. “It was just not a chance.”