What a terrible trajedy.
My wife and I were flying from the Channel Islands back to the UK, a week before this accident, in our PA28. It's ridiculous that it did, but it brought it all into stark reality, and has really upset my wife.
I am extremely safety conscious, and of course we don't know exactly what happened, but it's made me think that I might send myself and my wife on a ditching survival course.
In the mean time, I think I'm going to revert back to taking the dover/calais crossing to reduce exposure to flying over water in a single.
Our thoughts are (as goldeneaglepilot wisely stated) with his poor wife. What an unimaginable trauma.
But I am also extremely grateful for threads like this, as it helps us all learn. I think we all just have to remember that some people in life are morons, and you have to use self moderation to filter out the ludicrous, thoughtless comments and move onto the next post.