Mel,
Although I believe that you are right, Laurel's accident possibly could have been avoided I feel we need to give a bit more credit to the pilot. Mike's dad (the pilot) was a very experineced pilot he apparently had been flying his own private plane for over 30 Years. Furthermore he had flown through bad conditions countless times and was very skilled at using his instruments, Unlike JFK jr. I also have to add that although it was snowing and the visiblity was very bad, Penticton had given the plane O.K. to land. In fact it as on their decent that the plane just crashed. I am hoping it was a plane malfunction as opposed to pilot error. I have to admit when I first heard Laurel was misssing I felt a little anger towards Mike's dad. I thought how could he take my friend into an unsafe environment. Now I realize he is not responsible and the horrible truth that he died as well along with Mike and his mom. Maybe we should not be so quick to judge the pilot without knowing the details. Unfortunately because of the severity of the crash no one may ever know the details