On Oct 15, 4:09*pm, Walt Connelly Walt.Connelly.
wrote:
Some raw video from the crash scene with some comments from the NTSB
investigator around the three minute mark. *The comments from the guy at
the very end don't seem to make sense after having read the comments
thus far.

Always sad to lose a member of the soaring community

Walt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biS1n...layer_embedded

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Walt Connelly

The NTSB comment here is chilling. Successful launch, starts a 180
turn, then the nose falls and the turn steepens to a crash. Without
arousing the "don't speculate" crowd, it sounds like a fairly classic
stall-spin, set up, as others have mentioned, by the whole idea of
launching to 200' then doing a 180 in the first place.

I hope the NTSB and SSF can get and distribute the video of this crash
taken by the cadillac team. High quality video of a low altitude stall
spin could be very useful. The two-seater on youtube is great for
seeing how insidious the event can be, and this one may be clearer.
After this summer, I suspect we will all be focusing on that scenario
in training and BFRs, even more than already.

John Cochrane