Benalla

On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 7:13:23 AM UTC-7, krasw wrote:
There was a mid-air collision in 18m class today. Both damaged gliders returned to airfield. Such routine is this at WGC level that it did not make news anywhere?

Indeed...When you have blue days and over 100 gliders "out there" in close proximity, this is really not uncommon at major contests. All you have to do is go back in history and this has happened many times. The very good news is that no one was hurt and the gliders were able to land safely. My guess is that the folks would say that it was definitely an unfortunate event and that safety must be continuously emphasized. In the scheme of the "big picture" of a WGC, it was probably not really considered a big deal and as a result, not mentioned (at least publicly..so far..)....We may hear more later.....

On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 7:13:23 AM UTC-7, krasw wrote:
Such routine is this at WGC level that it did not make news anywhere?
On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 7:13:17 AM UTC-8, Renny wrote:
We may hear more later.....

Mentioned in John Good's report.
http://ussoaringteams.org/january-12th/
Jim