R.L. wrote:
Lets all admit that this accident was the confluence and outcome of serial
misjudgments, just like the examples in the textbooks. Can anyone argue that
good judgment ruled the day?

That flight had no business happening. That instructor had no business
taking a VFR primary student on a cross-country to Albany in Saturday's
weather and back practicing instrument approaches in really low IMC under

They are in IMC, or IMC develops at home while they are off. Instructor offers
that he can fly in or out in IMC, so they can still do the day somewhere else.
If the instructor is rated, thats perfectly ok. If he wasn't, and the field
was IFR, then you have a case.

The rest of this speculation and horse**** is deleted. These people are dead.
They are not going to get undead anytime soon, so they can wait for a proper
investigation. You can't ? Tough.