[colechristensen]

You can build your own aircraft, you just can’t shoot from the hip.

From the description, the man wasnt killed by one mistake but at least a dozen at the same time, and all of them avoidable by a one man operation.

You don’t design an aircraft to fly, you design it to fail in ways and for reasons that are very well understood, then you design several ways for each impossible failure to happen gracefully.

[jacquesm]

Helicopters are particularly unforgiving in this respect.

[phendrenad2]

Yep and it's always tempting to push the envelope and attain a tantalizing achievement, even though the safety precautions necessary would cost more than you can afford.