A glider pilot came to grief on Magic Mountain area yesterday afternoon.
No doubt details will follow later today.
The pilot wasn't in the contest currently underway in Omarama.
We seem to lose about one pilot per year...which out of a total base of 900 pilots seems quite high. Admittedly some of the losses come from visiting foreign pilots (I can think of at least 2 over the last few years) but the pen pushers aren't going to tolerate this for much longer.
Unlike the last few fatal accidents this one doesn't appear to be an out-landing...unless he was attempting an landing on Snowy Tops (Ribbonwood Station area)...it is quite smooth and round-ish.
This from the Otago Daily Times (ODT if you're a local)
Omarama is world-renowned as a premier gliding area.
Otago has been the location of several fatal gliding accidents including that of Owen James Truelove (69), of Cornwall, and his son James Christopher Scott Truelove (37), of Queenstown, who crashed near Lake Hawea in 2006; Greg Brosnan (44), of Wanaka, who died near Omarama in 2005; and Norman Howard Gray (53), of Colorado, who died in the Ohau range in 2002.
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