Serious Comment. You may not wish to read this

Having spent some time in the Marine & Aviation Insurance Claims sector, one of the first things you look for in a light Aircraft fatal is the autopsy. (Testing the remains of the pilot for drugs - prescribed or otherwise, and alcohol)- assuming the wreck did not burn.

I am afraid that only too often the remains had to be extracted from what was left of the engine.

A vertical dive from a few thousand feet generally puts the crank shaft and the engine block through the pilot, coming out in the small of the back.

I dare say RAF crash crews noticed the same effect.

Gareth