1st time- high speed dive with my Four Star 40, right wing panel ripped off and plane nose dived
2nd time- got me another Four Star 40 and was flying in the high school parking lot, clipped a light pole and busted wing up.
3rd time- elevator linkage came loose on my Pacific Aeromodels Cherokee, plane lawn darted.
4th time- flying my Aeroworks Edge 540 inverted without enough aileron expo, plane rolled right over my head and I lost it, nose dived
5th time- flying my Great Planes Silhouette(foam plane) doing a hover and lost control, plane broke into about 5 pieces(dont get this plane, its very very weak even though they advertise it as a tough foam construction)
Like someone else already said, if you ain't crashing then either you own a flight sim or you just ain't doing anything spectacular. One thing that makes me itch just a little is when people show up with 3D planes and hover them a 10000 ft in the air. I understand they stay high to practice but after months and months of the same thing it gets old. I admit I used to hover 3 mistakes up, but I slowly brought it lower and lower. To date I have crashed my OMP EDGE 540 3 times. First time I was trying to harrier land and I stalled and bent the gear pretty good. Second time, I lost elevators and had to pancake it to land and the motor ripped out and the right wing panel got busted up alittle. And just this weekend I was messing around a little to much and stalled the plane and the motor ripped out again, a little bit of medium CA and CA accelerator and its good to go.