"Emily" wrote in message
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Greg Farris wrote:
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snipped poor Michael's information

I'm hoping the Sports Star status of the victim will help
to "de-villainize" the whole thing in the general public's
mind, and divert some attention away from the "dangerous GA"
theme.

No, it makes it worse. GA killed a "celebrity".

What this accident did is bring GA to the public's attention. The 99.9% of
the public that does not deal with GA never really thinks about GA until
something like this happens to bring it to their attention. However, once
their attention is focused on the subject then they start to wonder why
"these little planes" can just fly whenever and wherever they want with no
restrictions.

The problem we are going to have from this accident is that Boyer and others
are going to say that GA is no threat. Yet, the public has just seen an
apartment complex on fire from a little plane "slamming" into it. Now that
they are thinking about the subject someone is going to start wondering what
would happen if the plane had been full of explosives and the target was
some public gathering. Expect people to start postulating on the
destructive power of a VLJ fully loaded with explosives. I doubt if Boyer
is going to be able to pull his magic over this crash. At the very least,
the DC no-fly area will increase in size, and maybe other cities will be
included.