Hmm. A valid point. One worth considering. I admit to usually blaming crashes and such I see on videos or read about on pilot error, and I am still inclined to do so. Mainly because it usually is. However, any complicated piece of machinery composed of circuit boards, gravity-defeating mechanics, countless small moving parts that are routinely put under repetitive pressure, stress and motion such as the H is could go also easily go down, for a variety of reasons.
I, personally, have not seen any clear pattern that would point at or indicate any routine failure on the Typhoon's part. In some cases of accidents and "flyaways," (God, I hate using that word!) it's easy to assess it as pilot error; in others it's a clear cut case of a electrical or mechanical failure that has caused things to go wrong. But I think we also have to always allow for the law of averages and the unknown to play their roles, too, which they do.
Whether it's a jet airliner, a Typhoon H, or a kid's bicycle, the law of averages are there to prove that after so many jet flights, drone flights or bike rides, there will be a certain number of near-misses, close calls, destructive crashes and accidents that have to happen to someone. And sometimes the unknown creeps in, too, which none of us is comfortable with psychologically because the unknown is unsettling to us and makes us realize our vulnerability in Life, whether it be aboard a jet, flying a $1K drone in the air, or biking down a well-known street. Still, that reality of Life doesn't stop millions of people from flying in jets every day, taking a drone into the sky, our letting little Susie take her two-wheeler down the block. In the backs of our minds we know that the risks are there, but rationalize it will ALWAYS happen to someone else, which it usually does.
Unless you ARE that someone else. And someone always has to be that person. Tonight I think it was my turn.
