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Old June 21st 13, 03:16 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Glider accident while filming commercial in 2011. NTSB Report updated

I was supposed to do this commercial.
Instead the company went to the lowest bidder.

I had a much safer script for this and
it would have promoted soaring, but the
car company and the production company
had no interest in any of that. All
they wanted was the low hanging fruit,
which was a glider being jerked into
the sky by a car.

This is very typical in the film biz.

There is a lot I cannot talk about because
of the investigation.

It was a sad event that did not have to happen
and could have easily been avoided.

VI