I assume that we are probably going to be told that there was a pilot error involved in the Italtile plane crash, but it is always horrific when we read these stories, and they always seem to involve small planes, going into small airports, in bad weather conditions.
I was quite terrified myself, some years ago, when an advocate was flying me in his plane, and the Pilansberg Airport signed off at 6pm indicating from then on you had to fly yourself in without any assistance from the control tower as to any other planes in the area! Imagine if the weather is poor? That is a risk you will always be taking when flying on smaller planes and certainly into smaller airports, where the staff members don’t necessarily work 24 hours.