Simpleflight Radio

I'm not sure why, but this weekend made me take pause from a General Aviation perspective.  There were two fatal accidents in SW Missouri that caught my eye.  The first, was a tragic story of a father, mother, and two children that were killed when the A36 took off from a friend's grass field, only to stall at about 100 feet over the tree tops.  Their 5 year old is in critical condition.  The second was a business owner that entered into a thunderstorm which ripped his Saratoga into pieces.  As a pilot, I immediately jumped to the conclusion in the first accident that the field may have been short, soft, and probably at a high density altitude.  With 5 people, even though three were children, luggage, and who knows how much fuel, I can imagine the pilot saw the trees coming at him, pulled back and took aim for the tree tops.  My theory could be way off base, but if it is, then this type of accident probably happened somewhere else recently.  Since no thunderstorm has ever outpaced an airplane, the pilot flew