Deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the deceased pilot, and I hope that the survivor makes a speedy and full recovery.
It's a sad fact that about this time every year, the weather improves and everybody rushes out to get some time airborne (I was no different this weekend I must admit). With every recreational pilot in the country out in anything they can make fly, many of them a little rusty, unfortunately we do expect some accidents about now. Let's all however just be warned and try and make sure there aren't any more.
On a brief semantic note, I think that a lot of journalists are under the impression that the verb describing the action of leaving an aircraft in the air is "to eject", and it's ultimately a misinderstanding of terminology rather than anything else. And to be fair, if you look the word up in most "general use" dictionaries it fits - just as to eject a cassette from your stereo.
G