[ZOGman]

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/n ... gs-4459449

[kanga]

Fatality reported

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-g ... e-53922217

[johnm]

Out of Aston Down then

[kanga]

Out of Aston Down then

Confirmed. Fatality 'in his 90s'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/gloucestershire

[jrp]

And your point is?

[kanga]

And your point is?

Only seeking to provide some extra detail, which may interest some Forumites who know or are members there.

[PeteSpencer]

I think the slightly suspect/unnecessary use of quotation marks rattled the poster's cage.

I must admit I had the post :

"uh-oh, incoming.............",

lined up after kanga's post, but I hit 'delete' instead.

Peter

[johnm]

Knowing @kanga ‘s command of grammar I took it that he had extracted the data relating to the victim from the article

[kanga]

Pilot named:

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/n ... er-4513739

[kanga]

Tribute from club:

https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/ ... ast-month/

[MachFlyer]

He sounds like quite a chap, blue skies

[Kemble Pitts]

Very sad.

Ken was, indeed, a super chap and an accomplished glider pilot. He made an open and long-standing offer to any of the club members; so long as you paid the launch fee (all of about eight quid I seem to recall) he'd take you on a triangular cross-country in his ASH 25 and show you how to do it.

I took him up on his offer (as did what must have been hundreds of others over the years) and learnt a huge amount about the 'tricks of the trade' of successful cross country gliding.

A very sad loss. He died doing what he loved. Fair-winds Ken.

[kanga]

BBC gist of AAIB report

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-g ... e-56933563

('too low before fatal crash' is a rather self-evident headline ..

)

[ls8pilot]

Full report here:

https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-schleicher-ash-25-e-g-cfst

[Flyin'Dutch']

Non-adherence to sensible SOPs lead to avoidable fatal accident, the experienced passenger and safety-pilot was lucky to survive.

The list of dominoes which could have been stopped is evident in the report.

But if there is one lesson in here for all of us to learn is that you need to speak up clearly, unequivocal clear language, determine who does what and who has which role in the cockpit, before you set off and save for an emergency execute that plan.