On 9/20/2015 3:45 PM, son_of_flubber wrote:
"Deputies say Szymanowski was coming in too fast. He tried landing twice,
and on the third try, came up short."

What?


Always distressing to learn of any glider crunch, particularly those involving
injury of any kind. May the pilot's outcome be the best possible given his
injuries, and best wishes to him, his family and friends.

Enough years have passed for me to have more experience than I'd like with
first-hand information related to stories (of all kinds) that have found their
way into printed news outlets, and I've yet to encounter one that has NOT had
at least one error in fact (as distinct from awkward phraseology); seems to be
the nature of the beast. (Remember that old children's game of "telephone?"
News reporting is its close cousin.)

Point being that all non-hoax-origin news stories have some relationship to
actual occurrences, and short of first-hand knowledge, the best one can do is
continually hone their "reading between the lines" skills while practicing
"critical thinking" when it comes to trying to decipher what may have actually
happened. I suppose one possible surmise as to what the above quote is trying
to convey might be that the pilot did two zoomies with insufficient energy to
complete the desired landing. But I'm not betting any Real Money on that guess...

Bob - all ears - W.