Glider Crash at Shoreham...

[Chris Sykes]

Happened on 23rd Aug but havent heard about this untill I read the Metro...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... unway.html

[Garry Russell]

How close can you be

Thank goodness he crawled away from that

Amazing shots and I'm surprised not been wideley seen

Tough machine

Thanks for posting Chirs

[austerdriver]

He's lucky to have survived that crash. Glider looks like it will be written off.

[FlyTexas]

Dang! Amazing/terrifying pics. Glad he's ok.

Brian

[jonesey2k]

That must have hurt! Damn lucky to be alive!

[Sl4yer]

Wow! Obviously the composite structure of the glider did it's job superbly! As you say Garry, surprised that's not made the wider news, probably because it's not a video!

I'm due to go gliding before the end of the year, so I don't think I'll show this to the wife...

James

[Chris Trott]

Video of the accident -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbulrrQVig

Looks like the impact was actually at a fairly low airspeed. From the looks of it, he stalled while trying to turn into the wind on final during a very gusty wind condition. Unfortunate and not much he could do in that case with as bumpy as it was.

[Tarasdad]

The wingtip impacting first probably helped as well.

[Garry Russell]

You can see how much the wing bent so it acted a bit like a spring

[Vulcan_to_the_Sky!]

Ouch!!

Lucky, Lucky Guy! Nice to see he's ok, Im sure he's never landed like that before!!