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Date: | Tuesday 4 August 2020 |
Time: | 15:00 |
Type: | Glaser-Dirks DG-300 Elan |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | D-7198 |
MSN: | 3E-221 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Herborn -
Germany
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Wetzlar Garbenheimer Wiesen |
Destination airport: | Wetzlar Garbenheimer Wiesen |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Depending missing thermals on a competition , glider (pilot) had to prepare an outlanding on a field. Glider touched trees with left its wing and got serious damage. Pilot was not injured, no other people involved.
Sources:
I was in the team which disasembled the glider (Rückholer) put it into the trailer to bring it back to our airfield.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Aug-2020 19:53 |
Pallianer |
Added |
07-Aug-2020 19:53 |
harro |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source] |
08-Aug-2020 12:24 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Cn, Source] |
09-Aug-2020 04:50 |
Mike Hessen |
Updated [Location] |