Ouch!
Yep, looking at the trees looks like a bit of tailwind to me, probably like most have said, with a bit of overloading and downdraft added. Had a m8 die in a 180hp C172 like that a couple of years ago...
Always a waste, of pilot and plane....when will people learn to think!
Re cirruses v bonanza's.....no competition...Bonanza people are like Car enthusiasts, Cirrus drivers are (often, but NOT always) like Volvo drivers.... I'm safe, so who cares about the rest of you.... Heard a non professional CPL holding cirrus owner bragging about a flight of 3 hours in cloud in his new cirrus in NQld. I enquired as to when he had done his CIR, he said he hadn't and didn't need to as the autopilot did all the flying and if he got in trouble he could just pull the chute..... (Shudders all round from the IFR pilots that may have been sharing that OCTA cloud with the offending blissfully unaware "pilot")
