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I am also a commercial pilot. 100% agree with you. I fly folks for a multitude of reasons but as the PIC, your passengers life is your responsibility. He should have declared to get priority landing at Van Nuys.
Aviate
Navigate
Communicate
Unfortunately he failed in one way shape or form in all 3 facets 
Quoted from CrazyLevi:As they say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one!
Passengers say that. Pilots say “any landing you make and the aircraft is still usable is a great landing”. 
Quoted from Cobray:Every pilot is an expert... until they die in a fiery crash and everyone is "surprised".
Never have I heard "the guy was a real idiot" and I'm surprised he didn't kill himself sooner!
Think about that. It can happen to the best of the best.
Then you’re not part of the aviation community. There are PLENTY of idiots we chastise regularly. Like this guy Jerry W. He’s a fucking clown. Regularly skirts the regulations and puts his passengers in super dangerous positions. We’re all shocked he hasn’t been scraped off some landscape with a spatula yet.
Quoted from Freakyguy666:The op is wrong.
The conditions were nowhere near as bad as they ended up when the flight was being originated in OC.
Unless the OP has the actual weather report as presented to the pilot prior to flight, he should acknowledge his thoughts are simply speculation with no facts to back them up.
You do realize those reports are widely available the weather and vis were below minimums for vfr regs which is why he asked for special.
ForeFlight has all the info for the surrounding area at the time and it was low ifr in areas died to fog.
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