Difficult to collect stats from dead people with no FDR 
That has to be the most ridiculous example I have seen. Despite constant warnings even relayed through an airliner he carried on
The human factors are just bizzare.
We had a thread on something similar a while ago…
But I think most of us are capable of doing something stupid – if not quite that stupid.
But then we don’t know what his flight conditions actually were. Not that 300ft AGL is not desperate…
Re stats – there was a study I remember that compared accident causes between IR rated pilots and non-IR rated pilots, both VMC and IMC, and the loss of control cause of accident was about half of that for IR pilots vs. Non IR-pilots.
I’m impressed with the level of information and assertiveness that the controllers express.
His mindset prevented him from making good decisions, the video seems to suggest.
