So I think we should quit blaming the aircraft.
I'm not so sure.....
NTSB database, since July of 2006 there have been 5 accidents involving the Liberty not including the last one ( hasn't made it to the database yet.)
All of them landing:
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id...02X01073&key=1
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id...09X01136&key=1
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id...14X01786&key=1
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id...14X00288&key=1
This one shouldn't really count, but still in landing phase of flight.
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id...20X01810&key=1
Same period for the Cessna 152, 38 accidents.
Number of aircraft on the US civil registry:
Liberty XL 89
Cessna 152 3800
Which means over the period of a year 6/89.....that's 1:15
vs 38/3800 that's 1:100.
Call it fuzzy math, but there is something going on out there.