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Strike a pose for a ‘selfie motivation’ prize

This is not news. But it is a new piece of information. In May last year, a two-seat Cessna 150K plane crashed in a wheat field in the US State of Colorado and killed the pilot and the passenger. That is a minor accident by many standards, but the tragedy is that they were victims of technology, nay, fad.

Recent reports from the US National Transportation Safety Board confirm that the pilot was using a cellphone at the time of the accident.

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