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There's an excellent article about the crash in this month's AOPA magazine. It tells the story from a pilot's perspective, including details about the ill fated pilot's flight record, the weather briefings he received (some briefings were deemed faulty and incomplete), and the fact that he was not instrument rated, yet departed into deteriorating instrument conditions in advance of an approaching cold front. In fact, had failed his instrument check ride some months before and was completely unfamiliar with the particular “artificial horizon” instrument that was installed in the airplane. It's an interesting read and shows how the pilot let a bunch of things stack up on him. It's usually a series of events that lead up to a crash and this one is no exception. If they'd have waited until the next morning they would have faired much better because the weather had inproved significantly. So much improvement that there probably wouldn't have been a crash and they would still have made their next show with plenty of time to spare......