[QUOTE]Originally posted by trumper
[B]I too have seen too many crashes,just like to ask for a factual answer please,no hysterics just facts,Of the highly publiicised crashes,p38,mossie,buchon,p63 ,firefly,Rolls royce Spit at Woodford etc,if the aircraft had been 500 to 1000 feet higher how many of them would have had a chance to recover or at worst turn a fatal crash into a pancake with survivors?
buchon

Which Buchon crash are you referring to here?

If you mean the Mark Hanna accident I hope you aren’t just adding it in to bulk out your list. (You list the accidents as highly publicised and I can’t think of another Buchon accident in recent years that saw such significant publicity) .

If he’d been 500 or 1000 ft higher that day, he wouldn’t have had his accident as a result of LANDING the aircraft. He was not engaged in aerobatic manoeuvres – simply trying to land. I would advise a little more circumspection when trying to find examples to build up your argument.

And of course, banning people from landing because it’s dangerous offers an entirely new set of problems…..!