Glider Accident and Fatality in Utah

[Renny[_2_]]

Sadly, here is an NTSB report of a recent glider accident and fatality in Utah:

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20140623X11029&key=1

Please be careful out there!

Thx - Renny

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Chilling when you consider this 20+ year old thread, started by the pilot in the accident: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rec.aviation.soaring/-v-lHP9EjII/discussion (the last post in the thread warned that the Spirit had a high stall speed).

-Mark Rebuck