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Here's one kinda well publicized case of see and avoid becoming seen and crunched . While thankfully rare , it DOES happen , because there is no such thing as the 100% infallible human . Sure , we can work out butts off to make things as safe as possible and reduce the chances of accidents , but even if the "gross negligence" types could ever be completely eliminated there will always be the "small oops" kind of accidents waiting to rise up and bite your tail . I do , I do my best to follow all of the established safety rules in our hobby so that if there ever is an incident with my plane I'd like to think gross negligence on my part wasn't a factor .

You wanna see some hair raising stats from the full scale manned flight world , try searching "Runway Incursions" sometime , , , It's enough to make even the most ardent aircraft aficionado wanna avoid airports altogether