Do ya think they died happy....?

[G-man]

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X18632&key=1

NTSB Identification: MIA92FA051.
The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 46312.
Accident occurred Monday, December 23, 1991 in RAINBOW LAKE, FL
Probable Cause Approval Date: 05/05/1993
Aircraft: PIPER PA-34-200T, registration: N47506
Injuries: 2 Fatal.
THE PRIVATE PILOT AND A PILOT RATED PASSENGER WERE GOING TO PRACTICE SIMULATED INSTRUMENT FLIGHT. WITNESSES OBSERVED THE AIRPLANE'S RIGHT WING FAIL IN A DIVE AND CRASH. EXAMINATION OF THE WRECKAGE AND BODIES REVEALED THAT BOTH OCCUPANTS WERE PARTIALLY CLOTHED AND THE FRONT RIGHT SEAT WAS IN THE FULL AFT RECLINING POSITION. NEITHER BODY SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SEATBELTS OR SHOULDER HARNESSES BEING WORN. EXAMINATION OF THE INDIVIDUALS' CLOTHING REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF RIPPING OR DISTRESS TO THE ZIPPERS AND BELTS.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:

THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S IMPROPER INFLIGHT DECISION TO DIVERT HER ATTENTION TO OTHER ACTIVITIES NOT RELATED TO THE CONDUCT OF THE FLIGHT. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE EXCEEDING OF THE DESIGN LIMITS OF THE AIRPLANE LEADING TO A WING FAILURE.

[cotejy]

THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S IMPROPER INFLIGHT DECISION TO DIVERT HER ATTENTION TO OTHER ACTIVITIES NOT RELATED TO THE CONDUCT OF THE FLIGHT.

That sentence is pure beauty. How to say what happened in official neutral terms.

I think they both die horrified. Darwin Award material.

[chuckar101]

Should of rented an airplane with an autopilot  .  Idiots.

[Fabo]

chuckar: I was gonna say. How would FAA stand with this anyway? Apparently, they allow for single pilots to leave the operation of the plane for "physiological needs".... would this qualify yathink?

[chuckar101]

chuckar: I was gonna say. How would FAA stand with this anyway? Apparently, they allow for single pilots to leave the operation of the plane for "physiological needs".... would this qualify yathink?

Well I don't believe the FAA would agree with a pilot leaving his station in a single pilot operation.  They do allow you to declare an emergency under the physiological needs, although I think they would question this specific need.