.. only the pilot died .. I realise (to some) this loss may seem insignificant.
A little bit out of context....
However I've got to say, while it would be heartless and unfeeling to wish these events on fellow pilots, I'm not friends with everyone just because they happen to hold a pilots licence. As such there is a limit to my emotions over someone completely unknown to me.
The timing of some recent threads given yesterdays events is pretty unfortunate but lets remember why this thread got rekindled.
It merely follows on from some sneering remarks where some here (PPRuNe not this thread) tried to correlate private pilots (perhaps wealthy) with accidents.
Comments similar to "these people who have done well in other aspects of life think that they can fly, etc,etc...." have been made more than once.
As others have said before it can happen to the best.