In article .net,
Hilton wrote:
Don Hammer wrote:
Gliders have been using very long and thin wings made of glass and
carbon for at least 25 years. Never heard of one having a wing
failure.

There was a 'high profile' accidnet in Minden a few years ago. Two
well-known pilots I believe. I'm sure a quick search on ntsb.gov will show
it.

It's still pretty rare though - we don't hear of glass gliders falling
out of the sky all the time. There are the occasional failures of
"traditionally" constructed (wooden) gliders too, last year a Ka-7 in
England broke up in level flight at 1000' AGL.

The only glass glider I've heard of breaking up got struck by lightning.

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