Governmentese

[Wilson Gray]

Official statement of  the ultimate cause of death, from the NATSB,

"Pilot error: failed to maintain clearance above terrain."

That is, the pilot, distracted, had allowed his plane to dive
nose-first into the ground at a speed of 270m.p.h. The proximate cause
of death was near-intantaneous deceleration that broke every bone and
destroyed every organ in his body.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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