“His follow up hit song was Dying in an Experimental Plane”.
Which was (at that time) so recently purchased that the cockpit was not dialed-in specifically nor properly to Denver.
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One report theorizes that Denver could not physically reach a control strap for fuel tank switching located behind him but out of reach. He may have instigated the maneuver that crashed him while phtsically twisting himself to reach the pull-strap to switch tanks. Hitting foot controls or stick angle while jostling for the tank strap, super quick aircraft, not really checked out on the aircraft... recipe for disaster.
IIRC that is...