Hey, that sounds exactly like Amelia Earhart! Shitty pilot (notoriously bad in aviation circles) who was promoted because she was pretty and photogenic.

Amelia's navigator and radioman Fred Noonan was reportedly one of the only people who would fly with her. He had a well known drinking problem and was seen drunk on the day they departed.

Amelia didn't know how to operate her own radios. She could not use Morse Code. She did not follow the guidance signals from the coast guard.

By all accounts she missed the tiny island that was her refueling stop and crashed on an atoll.

Now do Kara Hultgreen.

Oh wait. Here is a very authoritive video on the subject.

https://youtu.be/rFUXshaaMQM?si=mIFckmrr9DlJHxJW

I watched several videos about her since the crash.

She had just bought a new plane more intricate then the one she trained on.

She didn't understand how her new autopilot and trim worked in detail.

Once the two got out of sync, she couldn't correct it manually and undulated until they hit the ground.

Was just talking about her with a pilot buddy. Saw some of her videos before her crash (she flew the type of plane a cousin wants to buy), and noped out of her channel because of how clueless she was.

If you trace the causal chain back far enough, what lead to her crash was the government's inept response to the Colgan Air crash, in which the 1,500 rule was created. Because pilots now need 1,500 hours in order to be hired as a commercial airline pilot, every person with aspirations to becoming an airline pilot immediately becomes an instructor in order to build up their hours. So flight schools are inundated with "instructors" who have hardly any flying experience, and hardly any experience instructing students in any capacity. Her first instructor was too dumb to be up in the air teaching anyone to fly. Which is why she had the skills of a 40 hour pilot at 400 hours.