Originally Posted by
cats_five
There are very few mid-airs between gliders and light aircraft other than glider / tug incidents - from elsewhere:
23 Jul 94 - Cessna 152 vs Glider mid air - minor injury to glider pilot
Was overhead Farnborough; C152 made it back to Blackbushe.
Diana, Princess of Wales had departed clandestinely about half an hour previously having fooled all but one of the paparazzi she was flying out of Northolt, so we were just relaxing when the glider incident happened.
I was Farnborough Tower Controller and 'scrambled' our Fire and ambulances; we didn't know there had been a collision until the glider pilot was being transported to the medical centre and the ambulance driver told us he was raving about 'that light aircraft knocked my tail off'.
Unfortunately the Leicester Mercury pages aren't on the website now; who was the glider pilot in the HB collision?