Celebrities Killed in Aviation Accidents

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@damiross

Denver did purchase and did not build the Long EZ he was flying. Many of the causes of the crash were due to pilot error. This is the NTSB’s finding of probable causes:

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
the pilot’s diversion of attention from the operation of the airplane and his inadvertent application of right rudder that resulted in the loss of airplane control while attempting to manipulate the fuel selector handle. Also, the Board determined that the pilot’s inadequate preflight planning and preparation, specifically his failure to refuel the airplane, was causal. The Board determined that the builder’s decision to locate the unmarked fuel selector handle in a hard-to-access position, unmarked fuel quantity sight gauges, inadequate transition training by the pilot, and his lack of total experience in this type of airplane were factors in the accident.

Source: ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20 … 9045&key=1

I was JUST NOW reading that. So, I gues in Denver’s case, a certain amount of overconfidence existed there as well, but I’m still sticking to my theory that celeb pilots are typically MORE CAREFUL than they are overconfident.