There were many injuries some pilots lost there lives as mentioned in the reading and even more interesting howard hughes crashed into some local houses in the community flying his test plane, howard refused for is to be tested by a test pilot because he wanted to know himself what was actually going on in the plane and when they told him to come back after noticing his engine had gone out he flew an additional 45 minutes trying to diagnose the problem himself and ended up crashing into a house in the community which had a huge effect on the rest of his life never being the same again, but still being able to accomplish so much while constantly being addicted to drugs from the pain of the crash