Well a manslaughter prosecution has now been mounted, see the new thread I started here:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=208990
(mods - feel free to merge threads).
WRT to the previous posts on this subject, I have a general point to make. I feel some posters are missing the point. Microlighting is a *sport*. It's wrong thinking, IMHO, to compare the safety of microlights to transport cat. aircraft. 'Paying passenger' notwithstanding. I'd expect to be, and feel, moderately safe on board a high-end coach on the motorway. I'd expect to be, and feel, less safe as a 'paying passenger' in a souped-up WRX hurtling through a forest on a 'rally experience' ride. Extreme example, but I trust the point is made.
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