This includes companies that had been given waivers to fly blimps and banner-towing planes over sports arenas.

CNN: FAA issues flight restrictions

But he does claim that his potentially fatal publicity stunt (the plane he was in got tangled up in a Vote UKIP banner it was towing) has made him look again at his priorities in life.

BBC: What now for UKIP's Nigel Farage?

But on the morning of the election, Farage was involved in an air crash caused by the UKIP election banner the plane was towing getting caught in the plane's tail fin.

BBC: Profile: Nigel Farage, UKIP leader