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No pilots of any US unit were allowed to buzz the field. To buzz the field means to fly over it low and fast. At low altitudes, a slight miscalculation can send the aircraft into the ground, destroying the plane and killing the pilot. At low altitude there is no chance for the pilot to bail out successfully, because there is not enough height for the parachute to deploy before he hits the ground. At low altitude there is no margin for error, no altitude within which to recover control of the plane before crashing, to attempt to correct malfunctions, or bail out.
Sometimes the practice was overlooked, such as when pilots returned from a very successful mission, or when they finished the last mission of a tour of duty in combat. But even then if the higher officers went by the book, it was a forbidden practice, and a dangerous and stupid stunt. Airshows today involve mostly various types of buzzing the field, by extremely skilled and experienced pilots, and they still crash regularly.
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