On 11 Nov 2003 14:41:02 -0800, (Slingsby)
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The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's excessive use of the elevator control during recovery from an inadvertently entered spin and/or spiral dive during which the glider exceeded the maximum permissible speed, which resulted in the overload failure of the wings at loadings beyond the structure's ultimate design loads.

Remove the word "excessive" and the description becomes more realistic.

Ask that the NTSB...

If the pilot pulls too hard, creating g-forces that overload the
aircraft, the term "excessive" sounds appropriate for someone like me
whose mother language is not English.

Bye
Andreas