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I got your pm and am unsurprised to learn you were acquainted with one of the victims given your strength of emotion on this. I feel for your loss but taking it out on those on this site is probably going to get this thread locked and remove sensible discussion about the accident.
Legal - probably - as you've been shown
Wise - depends
Tragic - yes
Unless I have understood wrongly, the photographer had done this same trip many times in the past - your comment that if I thought it was a good idea then I shouldn't fly a kite you should consider in that context.
I hope you can move on in time and really hope a sensible, useful investigation is completed and released so others can learn from what looks, from bleachers, like inexperience coupled with commercial pressure coupled with many other holes in the cheese to bring down a plane on a mission which it seems had done the same thing annually for many years.
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