I briefly entertained flying planes as a hobby. I live next to a small-ish local airfield and a coworker of mine got his license there. Then I learned more about it, and there's way to many accidents like these for me to be comfortable with the risk I'd be taking.

I have no issue with flying commercial planes, but I guess I don't trust myself _and_ the smaller planes enough to do this.

RIP Claude, horrible way to die.

My Dad, a flight instructor, loves to remind me that there are bold pilots and old pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.

Similarly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608732

Personal aircraft. The great equalizer.

Bad two weeks for aviation.

memento mori

Why don't planes have parachutes? like a huge parachute that pops on stall to slowly descent the plane?

So many nerds here in Silicon Valley love to fly small aircraft, it’s an autistic comorbidity. You’ll never catch me acting so foolish.

Non paywall source: https://www.reuters.com/world/ubisofts-co-founder-claude-gui...

This sort of thing is one of the reasons Elon became so important at Tesla. The other key players died in a freakish plane crash, apparently hitting transmission lines at low altitude which is not something parachutes would likely have helped with.

https://www.wired.com/2010/02/plane-crash-kills-tesla-employ...

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