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Aircraft took off from Marana airport runway 03 for an introductory flight lesson. The pic/cfi was seated in the right hand seat and intro student was in left hand seat. The aircraft made an immediate right hand crosswind turn once it was above the height of the hangars located to the south of the runway. This turn was to ensure the aircraft did not interfere with the regular traffic that was using runway 12 at the time. The pilot had called prior to take off and announced his intentions to take off on runway 03 with a right hand departure, which would be no factor to runway 12 traffic. The aircraft turned a right hand down wind over the top of the hangers, and its flight path began angling back to the right toward the take-off end of runway 03. The aircraft was at approximately 75 to 150 feet altitude at the time it began its downwind leg. The aircraft appeared to be making a short in approach back to runway 03 and was descending. As the aircraft attempted to turn to runway heading it entered a high degree of right bank with the nose slightly pitched up. The right hand bank increased as the nose of the aircraft then pitched down. This last maneuver happened at less than 100 feet above the ground. The aircraft continued its nose down, right hand wing down flight path and impacted the ground in this condition. The aircraft right hand wing tip and forward right hand quadrant of the engine compartment impacted the ground first, and the aircraft tailboom broke over to the left at the midpoint of the tailboom. The aircraft came to a rest within 75 feet of the initial impact point with the right hand wing broken off at the wing root, and the forward right hand side of the empanage broken open at the forward doorframe. The pilot sustained life threatening injuries to his head, chest, and legs. The majority of these damages were to the right hand side of his body. He was air lifted to the hospital and expired approximately 30 hours later. The student pilot sustained injury to her cheekbones, right hand ulna, and right ankle. She was airlifted to the hospital and was released a few days later. The aircraft sustained extensive damage to the forward right hand side of the empennage. The forward right hand doorframe and floorboard area broke open leaving the right seat, side panel, & floorboard completely open and exposed. Both seat pans were broken free of their attach points. The engine, firewall, and instrument panel stayed together as a unit but were shifted to the left of the centerline of the fuselage. The right hand wing was sheared off outboard of the wing attach points, and the outboard 1/3 of the wing was bent upward. The left hand landing gear was broken off above the wheel assembly. The tailboom was broken in half and the tail feathers remained attached by only the rudder cables and bent elevator tube. The engine appears to be intact, but is damaged from the impact. One of the propeller blades broke off at the base next to the hub, but the other blade appears to have only minor surface scratches. The aircraft was equipped with an engine monitoring unit. This unit has been sent off to determine if any engine historical data can be retrieved from the unit. Additional investigation will be performed on the engine at a later date.