Say what?

Very sorry to hear that, especially since it appears to have been entirely avoidable. Odd thing is that, just a few days ago, I was thinking about how risk at the track never can be reduced to zero since crazy unimagined things can happen, like a plane making a crash landing. Eerily weird ...

The Zombie Apocalypse will be on foot!

That was a crash, not a crash landing!!! Completely illegal, stupid and obviously deadly.
Dirk

Very sad. Fortunately, no one on the ground was hurt--could have been much worse if he'd come down in the paddock.

For those who've heard of the upcoming more-specific codes...

ICD-9 code: Hit by crashing airplane
ICD-10 code: Injured while driving on race track, by crashing airplane, WWII vintage, single engine, doing acrobatics. Initial encounter.

About the last thing I expected to see on Dorki was ICD coding humor.

Seriously? You were thinking about being hit by a falling airplane in the context of track day risk?

I heard the identity of his passenger on the radio tonight. His 71-year-old mother!.

Mom: You're flying to low! You're scaring me! Take me down this instant!
Jon: Awww, Mom. I know what I'm doing. Oops!

Too soon?

I was musing about the topic in general, and that scenario came to mind as an example of something crazy but not impossible.

This was on the news tonight with video.

Son is now a 2014 Darwin award winner.