Always sad to hear of a death and my sympathies.
However speaking about the 172 crash at Omaka, someones arse should be severely kicked and if this is the standard of our students, god help us, 'especially one of the best flying students'.
Not only were they downwind they were also flapless and their go around attempt consisted of full back elevator until the thing stalled, then dropped a wing and speared into the ground vertically.
They are both very lucky but lets hope that we dont have to make these bigger mistakes to learn anything.