Experienced help might have found the mechanical problem before take-off... that might have saved the plane.

A plane going down from loss of power... If the piilot was trained properly, he would know how to handle it, and have a much improved chance of getting it down safely. Dead-sticks can be the cause of a crash, but usually, there was something else going bad at the same time if it was saveable just by keeping the engine running another 5 seconds. (and if 5 seconds wouldn't have saved it... it was going in engine or no engine)

The one place all sims are poor is teaching you to remain constantly aware of the plane's location in relationship to yourself (and other people) The sims give you a "tunnel vision" view, centered on the plane.. and little to no peripheral view of the stuff that you would HAVE to be aware of if you were flying an actual model.

Most experienced RC'rs would much rather help correct a mechanical problem, than see a beginner's plane go out of control when a servo arm falls off (or some other easilly preventable thing goes wrong) The person that out of control plane hits could be the experienced modeler...