Roy, I agree completely with you. During my 20 some years of flying I've come across these as well. I've never been a reporter but the one I remember most was a 250 comanche, Low time pilot, 4 on board. They'd been planning this vacation for the past few months. On the day that they were to leave, the weather was about 1/4 mile in fog. Being motivated to go, they took off anyways. They had flight planned for a 2 hour trip and they never arrived. We searched for them for 6 days. On the 6th day, a search airplane lifted off from the original airport and rather then do a normal extension out, for some reason they started banking earlier,, as they did, they spotted the comanche about 100' of the runmway in solid trees. I was there about 2 hours later. From the investigation,, the plane had come down, at full rpm, chopping up 1 tree on the way down. the rest of the trees around, other then a few broken barnches didn't show anything. There wasn't much left of anything. I flew out of that airport for about 8 yrs after that. Something like that certainly stays in ones mind, and today when it comes to poor weather like that, I think back and remember,, lost souls. I believe that it has certainly forced me to ask many times over,, Is it that important to go today,, Haven't found a reason that has ever been that important,, Hope I never do.
