View Single Post
  #3  
Old August 25th 16, 03:46 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Michael Opitz
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 318
Default Another terrible loss

At 02:09 25 August 2016, Dan Daly wrote:
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:02:42 PM UTC-4, Bob T

wrote:
Another very sad day for gliding. Bummer.
Telluride plane crash kills 2, including pilot and well-known

Telluride
l=
ocal "Glider Bob" Saunders. #telluridecrashhttps://t.co/DJhxIM0wRS
=E2=80=94 San Miguel Sheriff (@SheriffAlert) August 25, 2016
=20
Bob had a starring part in the recent video Cloudstreet- Soaring

the
Amer=
ican West.

We are diminished. =20

Dan

Sad pictures.. Below the tree line, and well below the mountain tops.
I would venture to guess it was a pretty steep impact. Possible
incapacitation? Hopefully, he was running a glide computer / logger
where the NTSB can look at the flight log...

https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/sta...733377/photo/1
?
utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=SheriffAl ert&utm_co
ntent=768617983765733377