"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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There is no _specific_ provision against flying under bridges in the
regulations of which I am aware.

In 1990 an amphibeous single flew under a bridge in downtown Portland and
the FAA and the police were all over the place looking for it.

Later that afternoon, I saw a conspicuously similar amphib in an open hangar
at nearby Troutdale. Were you in my position, would you have notified the
police? (They didn't exactly come forward and say "I did it, everybody.
It was totally legal.")

The news account used the word 'force.'

Is the news account suddenly authoritative on aviation terminology?

Lacking evidence to the contrary, it is in this discussion, IMO.

Fair enough. But I wonder: How does one "force" an airplane to the ground?

-c