Hi Spunk, I fully appreciate your views. The point I was making is that it is sometimes difficult to draw commonality between accidents especially when we don't know the full facts of this latest one.
I am also aware of several accidents in the Asia-Pacific region where PPL-piloted joy flights have ended up in bent metal and physical injury. I believe there should technically be no competency difference between PPLs and CPLs but flight trainers and regulators often have a more relaxed approach towards PPLs, which IMHO is wrong.