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Old February 23rd 14, 04:57 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default Glider Crash Argentina

I used google translate which is not terribly effective. It read like
setting up for an out landing. There was mention of what sounded like
several passes over the field getting lower and lower. Not a happy event.
Here's the (google) translation:

The aircraft crashed to the ground around 17:50 hours on Sunday in a field
located at the edge of the continued Palacios Avenue, about 3 miles west of
the clubhouse local Gliders. Andrea is Heck, 27, of the town of Winifreda.

A young 27-year-old, identified as Andrea Heck and native of the town of
Winifreda , was killed Sunday afternoon when he fell his glider in a field
near Santa Rosa, about 3 kilometers west of the Club Gliders.

The tragic accident occurred around 17:30 hours . A group of friends who was
at the club saw rushed to ground the aircraft. So warned the police
emergency and just a few minutes after the accident they attended the
medical and law enforcement personnel place to provide the first asitencias.

However, she was already dead. "It was a blow too" , said one of the
paramedics of the two ambulances arrived at the scene of the accident.

andreapicoThe young driver, in a photo from Facebook, after climbing Mount
Lanin .

Two young people who rent a field nearby told El Diario who viewed spend
'too low' glider 'always see them around here, so we drew attention to be so
low ... comes at a time when South to north, passing wires and returns again
to the south but increasingly low, too low .... then we realized that
something was wrong ', reported in the scene.

They added: 'when we peeked above the street canyon, we see that another
neighbor starts running towards the place ... and inudablemente an accident
had occurred. "

Fall-of-glider-field-Sanchez-38

At first, according to data provided by the provincial police, assists a
police car had been frustrated because the aircraft was at an unreachable
sector that out. Recent rains left impassable by the local road that had
gotten.

Therefore requested the presence of a grade out more to arrive to the place
by an alternative path with a motorcycle police.

andreapilotoYoung Andrea Heck, a glider up in another photo of Facebook .

Shock

Young, BA in Chemistry, resided for some time in the Pampa Capital ago. It
was also ultralight pilot with several years of experience.

In the place time of great upheaval and grief samples of several friends
lived, and mostly her boyfriend who came to the accident scene piloting an
ultralight .

'I can not believe, crazy, can not believe it ... a whole life ahead and
look what comes to pass' , repeated several times and crying girl screams.

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The body of the young remained for more than two hours at the crash site,
where several members arrived Gliding Club. Some officials told this
newspaper that the causes were unaware of the incident, but that it would
"be determined when the relevant skills done" .


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Not so pretty. It looks like the cockpit has sheared off from the fuselage
right at the front of the wing. That may well be what it looks like after a
stall or spin with very nose-down arrival, which would make sense of a crash
in a huge field 3 km from the club. How awful.

John Cochrane