Witnessing a Crash
A few years ago I witnessed a mid-air collision when a Cessna 150 doing a touch and go hit a flexwing microlight at about 400 feet after takeoff. I was downwind at the time and watched as the Cessna (2nd solo after 1st solo an hour earlier) flew into the back of the flexwing which had taken off a few moments before. One wing separated from the Cessna and it spun to the ground. The flexwing fluttered to the ground.
I could almost hear the pilot's instructors voice - "Watch your airspeed", and I'm sure that was what the pilot was doing, at the expense of looking out of the window.
The pilot died, but incredibly the occupants of the flexwing, which fluttered more slowly to the ground, escaped with a broken ankle, cuts and bruises.
I hope I never see anything like that again.