There is no doubt that crashes in this hobby will always be a fact of life. We can learn to fly and build better planes and even buy the best equipment for it. However we still can crash it and sadly we may never know the reason why. Nothing can be built crash proof and due to the fragility of these structures often little remains as to real cause of the failure. This makes it very difficult to determine the cause of a crash with so much destruction after impact. More often than not it’s simply pilot error and even the old school guys do that too. We like to find fault in other things if we can, for who likes to admit they did something dumb. Sometimes if we think about the possible root cause of the crash we can learn from that. I don’t like to speculate to a cause when it’s not real obvious what went wrong. I like to take a more investigative approach and ask questions that may give some insight as to a root cause. Like did you charge those batteries last night? Then you hear some silence and an ooops I forgot. Anyways my point here is to learn what you can from the crash and put it behind you and get back on that horse as soon as possible. Remember when learning to fly RC airplanes you start with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. Your goal is to fill the experience bag up before your luck runs out.