another crash

https://www-1.thenewstribune.com/new...234517642.html

Seems to be an unusually bad season for accidents.

Is it just me.....or do others click the link, see a bit, then locks up trying to load some other site?

Regardless, sucks another broken glider....

On DG with the one piece canopy, the head rest is mounted on the canopy, and one can imagine the effect of the canopy flying forward into the back of the pilots head, I removed mine from the canopy for exactly this reason after reading a previous accident report.

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 10:49:31 PM UTC-4, Charlie Quebec wrote:
On DG with the one piece canopy, the head rest is mounted on the canopy, and one can imagine the effect of the canopy flying forward into the back of the pilots head, I removed mine from the canopy for exactly this reason after reading a previous accident report.

I have repaired a number of ships that have had hard nose down impacts. Not one of them had the canopy come off. The canopy frame, in all cases, stayed with the fuselage and broke in line with the other fuselage structural failures. The canopies broke away from the frame in many pieces. To get the pilot out one needs to get that frame, and the shards of canopy, out of the way.
FWIW
UH

On 8/31/19 8:38 PM, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
Is it just me.....or do others click the link, see a bit, then locks up trying to load some other site?

Regardless, sucks another broken glider....


It still works for me. Fatal crash of motorglider, Aug 25 at Buckley
Washington, near Tacoma. Clipped trees after takeoff. I'm not finding
anything else.

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 10:19:15 PM UTC-5, kinsell wrote:

It still works for me. Fatal crash of motorglider, Aug 25 at Buckley
Washington, near Tacoma. Clipped trees after takeoff. I'm not finding
anything else.

Registry shows owner has a DG-300. Don't see any evidence of a motor in the pictures. Maybe a low altitude release? Condolences to the family and all his friends.

Steve Leonard

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 8:33:02 PM UTC-7, Steve Leonard wrote:
On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 10:19:15 PM UTC-5, kinsell wrote:

It still works for me. Fatal crash of motorglider, Aug 25 at Buckley
Washington, near Tacoma. Clipped trees after takeoff. I'm not finding
anything else.

Registry shows owner has a DG-300. Don't see any evidence of a motor in the pictures. Maybe a low altitude release? Condolences to the family and all his friends.

Steve Leonard

Departed from a nearby gliding field. Crash occurred while out-landing at a nearby private airfield. Very sad news indeed. This has been a tough summer.

Craig Funston

Very sad indeed.

There is another newsarticle with a clearer picture of the glider which seems to show an extended engine mast.

http://www.yelmonline.com/news/artic...b731bf84a.html

Steve Leonard wrote on 8/31/2019 8:33 PM:
On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 10:19:15 PM UTC-5, kinsell wrote:

It still works for me. Fatal crash of motorglider, Aug 25 at Buckley
Washington, near Tacoma. Clipped trees after takeoff. I'm not finding
anything else.

Registry shows owner has a DG-300. Don't see any evidence of a motor in the pictures. Maybe a low altitude release? Condolences to the family and all his friends.

Steve Leonard

I was told by a person that knows people in the affected club that the pilot was
attempting a landing at the airfield, because he was unable to stay aloft. He was
launched from Bergseth field a few miles away.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf

With the plane and cockpit mostly intact, I am curious what kills you in this impact. Would a airbag under the pilots save him in this situation. Looks to be he pancaked in and broke off cockpit and tail boom section where the attach to the metal tube frame that holds wings and main landing gear.

BG




On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 3:04:49 PM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Steve Leonard wrote on 8/31/2019 8:33 PM:
On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 10:19:15 PM UTC-5, kinsell wrote:

It still works for me. Fatal crash of motorglider, Aug 25 at Buckley
Washington, near Tacoma. Clipped trees after takeoff. I'm not finding
anything else.

Registry shows owner has a DG-300. Don't see any evidence of a motor in the pictures. Maybe a low altitude release? Condolences to the family and all his friends.

Steve Leonard

I was told by a person that knows people in the affected club that the pilot was
attempting a landing at the airfield, because he was unable to stay aloft.. He was
launched from Bergseth field a few miles away.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf