Up, up, and away.

It seems like every week a private plane crashes into a mountain, highway, or private home. This week is was into the ocean on the east coast of Jamaica. The two persons aboard who both died were real-estate executive Larry Glazer and his wife Jane. What is it about wealth that makes these arrogant doctors, lawyers and business executives feel they are ace pilots? They picture themselves to be government test pilots when they're more like Buddy Hackett in Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.  Sadly they not only kill themselves, but often their families, friends, and in this case their wife. I'm sure some readers will feel that if they trained and got their license they have just as much right to the sky as pilots who work for major airlines. I don't agree. These are Sunday drivers who see their expensive planes as privileged toys. And while most are flying merrily about without incident, every week one one or more of these "trained" pilots makes a fatal error or loses control of their toy through no fault of their own and either they, or someone on the ground, dies.