Hi Bill,

If I may respectfully (emphasis on respectfully) disagree.

It wasn't .the controller that put the plane in a bank and pulled up.   Was the controller confusing?   Yep, no doubt.   I have to honestly say that as soon as I heard 'no' and something about extending the downwind, I would have had the inclination of  turning left as well.  

I would say that part of the confusion was from the pilot not following directions in the first place.  If he had been on downwind as the controller was expecting him too...what would have happened?  Who knows...

In any case,  the final analysis is that the pilot did something with his airplane that caused it to spin.  

Real sad.....

Kevin

    
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The lesson here is who is going to be at fault when an accident occurs.  The controller cleared the Cirrus to land.  He didn’t clear him number two after the other Cirrus.  He also cleared him to land long, so it was perfectly logical for the pilot to turn base immediately.  Sure, he would probably have lived if he had turned right and landed long and the other Cirrus had landed on the numbers, but he didn’t have the other plane in sight and didn’t know where he was so he tried to climb and turn away from the airport and in his panic, did so too aggressively.

The controller was the total cause of the accident but everything in the piece turns it back to the pilot.

Just keep in mind that your pilot license is in the hands of the controller, but your LIFE is in YOUR hands!

Bill