Well, my story had a better ending. I was very new to flying, on my 4th or 5th flight on my Avistar. I lost all radio communication and down it went, destroyed. Walking back to the pits with my armload of balsa, a fella comes up and asks me what channel I was on. I told him only to have him tell me he shot me down. He'd been out of flying for a long time and forgot the rules. Anyway, he had 5 planes with him and he told me I could have my choice. I wasn't interested in any of them so he asked me how much cash I wanted. I told him the plane was $100.00 and he reached in his pocket , handed me $105.00, and said, "you'll need glue." I thought he handled it well.......took his $105.00 and put it into a 4*......which went down sometime later due to causes that can't be attributed to somebody else!