Another AAIB bulletin..another needless fatality..
440 hours total experience and 170 hours on type. IMC trained but no rating issued. Weather was unspeakably foul and was accurately forecast at the time. Maybe, having (allegedly) crossed the pond before, he was over-confident? For sure, neither he nor his 'plane were appropriate for the conditions encountered. These regular stories sadden me beyond words and I still have words ringing in my ears from the early 70s... "Don't ever, ever consider crossing the pond without a current I/R and recent IF practice."
RIP all the same. bm