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Old 5th Jan 2013, 21:34
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mary meagher
 
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Pace, although a power plane crashing onto somebody's home or school may cause casualties, a glider crash is highly unlikely to injure anyone on the ground....the only two occasions I can recall in the UK that a glider has caused a fatality to a person on the ground the glider had not crashed.....but was being flown irresponsibly by a highly qualified adult.

Young car drivers, on the other hand, are more frequently lethal.
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