Because piss poor planning of the flight gave him no back door , were you not taught to fly and plan for when not if the engine fails.
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Have you ever taken off from Rand Airport in a real aeroplane?
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A valid question (except for the "real" part)...I fly both microlights and spamcans, and both are real aeroplanes. You can really, and indeed swiftly, die in either type.
I did much of my PPL out of Rand (usually out of runway 11) as well as my complex training and sign-off in a Turbo Arrow 4 namely ZS-KTA. Retracts, VP prop, turbocharged and fuel injected. A proper handfull! (heavy elevator but the electric trim helped with the flare though
)But if my engine had ever quit I can tell you I would have had a choice of either a mine dump or some residential roadway to plonk it onto at 70mph.
Sometimes fate is indeed the hunter and people will get hurt or die.
It is their time. If it wasn't their time the engine wouldn't have croaked.
Real world emergencies in a 1 ton spamcan are a lot different to a diddy little 582 going quiet on you, (got that T-shirt too) and then your 270 kg rag 'n tube airframe hits a car or something at 40mph?
Big difference. Please don't judge until you've been there, or very close to there yourself.
