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Some of you may know my ex-wife. She had started taking flying lessons
about the time our divorce started (1995) and she got her license
shortly before our divorce was final, later that same year.

Yesterday afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she
was piloting when she was forced to make an emergency landing in
Southern Ontario because of bad weather. Some could call it a crash;
an accident at the least.

Canadian Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a
preliminary determination citing pilot error contributed to the
accident, and she was

flying a single engine aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR
(instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR
(visual flight rating) rating.

The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel
on board. No one on the ground was injured.

Photograph was taken at the scene and shows the extent of damage to
her aircraft.

She was very lucky.