personally don't usually partake in accident threads because of my lack of experience (104 hours), but the various suggestions of causes certainly makes me think and does affect how i fly.
Doing my IMC has proved invaluable, only last week fresh in the saddle again did I find malfunctioning instruments in mostly crap weather. All worked out well because im confident.
visit planned for the said airfield in the near future.
Very sad accident.
From what was said earlier in the thread about age of the aircraft, used to fly a 1970 pa28 140 and it was sweet as a nut, bar the shafted adf. A little underpowered maybe but no issue at all.
Dan