Newmarket: Collision of gliders was ‘pure accident’

[mhm]

One pilot parachuted into a field and another completed an emergency landing after the incident in the skies above Newmarket on July 23 last year.

A report into the accident, which took place on the third day of the 2012 British Club Class Gliding National Championships, has now been completed. Chris Heames, senior accident investigator for the British Gliding Association, said about 12 of the 40 craft taking part in the race were trying to enter a thermal when the accident took place.

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/newmarket_collision_of_gliders_was_pure_accident_1_1936735

[viking9]

Thank God for that. I'd hate to think that rivalry made one pilot fly his glider into the other intentionally!