Which glider club ran over the cop?

[Karen]

Seriously, is this a hangar story or did it really happen?

(From Judith Mole's Blog in the UK last Sat. 17, July)


"Whilst we’d been chatting, we heard the story of the policeman who
drove onto the sailplane field last year (to introduce himself, he was
new to the area) and managed to get in the way of a glider being towed
off, and hit it with his car and wrote it (the glider) off. Then,
bizarrely, blamed the gliding club for this, when he’d been driving
across an airfield without notifying them first. Or, clearly, looking
around him. Incredible. This is still not resolved apparently."

[Derek C]

On Jul 22, 2:30*pm, Karen > wrote:
> Seriously, is this a hangar story or did it really happen?
>
> (From Judith Mole's Blog in the UK last Sat. 17, July)
>
> "Whilst we’d been chatting, we heard the story of the policeman who
> drove onto the sailplane field last year (to introduce himself, he was
> new to the area) and managed to get in the way of a glider being towed
> off, and hit it with his car and wrote it (the glider) off. Then,
> bizarrely, blamed the gliding club for this, when he’d been driving
> across an airfield without notifying them first. Or, clearly, looking
> around him. Incredible. This is still not resolved apparently."

It's a true story. It happened at the Long Mynd site of the Midland
Gliding Club in the UK in 2009. I believe that the glider was a
Slingsby Dart.and that Its wingtip smashed through the side window of
the Police car.

Derek C