Carl J. Niedermeyer wrote:
(Mark James Boyd) wrote:

The accident occurred approximately 7 or 8 nm miles West of Ephrata,
where we fly from. The altimeter in the LS1-f was broken with the hands
indicating about 6700 feet MSL (IIRC), about 5000 feet AGL. There were
no clouds that day and visibilty was 150 miles. I have the complete
report somewhere in my files.

Geez. This sounds like a pure one-in-a-million case of crappy luck.
The chance of two aircraft in all that 3-dimensional space hitting each
other, while just flying around, is almost astronomical.

An astronomical number of hours of flight in the USA in the past
century multiplied by a miniscule chance of a random collision = ?

I don't know what to conclude from this, but thank you for your
investigation and response. Perhaps others will have comments.
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Mark J. Boyd