"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message
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was the real failure a failure of the american medical system to
diagnose and correctly treat his blocked anterior artery?

I ain't no doctor, but diagnosing that takes some pretty $pecific and
sometimes very invasive tests that are not done without very good reason.

I also tend to focus on the canopy.
In that scenario the "real failure" was:
1) An improper (probably rushed) preflight check. (On any canopy plane, you
need to double and triple check that the canopy is secure.)
2) A failure to ignore the noise, wind, and swirling debris caused by the
open canopy and concentrate on flying the perfectly controllable airplane.

The drugs and the pilot's general health were probably certainly factors,
but even without the drugs, the same could have happened to many of us.

Vaughn