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Old June 14th 18, 09:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Renny[_2_]
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Default Grand Teton Crash

On Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 1:17:34 PM UTC-6, Ron Gleason wrote:
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 13:05:14 UTC-6, Steve Koerner wrote:
Very very sad to read of this accident.

This report has the accident occurring at 12:00.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=212026


From Weather Underground, wind on June 9 at 11:56 at Driggs was 21 mph gusting to 25 mph, sky clear. Wind in the nearby mountains at 10,800 ft might have been greater and might have been more gusty:

https://www.wunderground.com/history...ic=&reqdb.wmo=


Steve, I looked around online for any weather stations on the mountain peaks, mainly Snotel, but could not find any or they are offline for the non-winter months. The station on top of the tram Jackson Hole was not reporting and I am not sure if it has historical data.

Here in Northern UT we had strong pre-frontal S/SW winds before the passing of a cold front from the NW Saturday night.

Sad, sad situation

Ron Gleason


There is some info on the weather in this article....

https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/...451298d23.html