Cloud blamed in fatal plane crash

[S-Works]

Classic case of get home-itus. The cloud is not to blame, the pilot in command is clearly to blame and his stupidity cost the life of his passenger.

Common sense should have dictated that in the conditions a VFR only pilot should have sat it out when he stopped for fuel. Instead he chose to push on with the inevitable consequences.

IO is quite right in highlighting the outcome as cold hard pointer to us all.

I have no idea what he learnt on his IR had to do with it unless it was just an opportunity to slip in the point that he has one (even if it is of the "foreign" variety)