RE: expensive plane crash on second flight.
Seth,
Sounds to me like it's time to get a job. I really am sorry about you loosing your plane, but frankly that's the price of admission into the hobby. I've crashed a lot of planes in my time and that's part of the reason I don't have anything quite as elaborate as you did. You should read Futaba's waranty. They probably state pretty clearly that they aren't responsible for damage to planes or engines in the event of radio failure.
I don't think it was Futaba's fault anyway. It sounds to me like you got shot down (sombody turned on a tx on your channel). Either way, it isn't their responsibility to pay for your plane.