Originally Posted by
POBJOY
If anyone in the higher echelons of the Air Cadets knew anything about gliding they would now be realising that the T31 did everything it was supposed to do; and all with an enviable safety record.
I heard of one 'fatal' at Swanton I think in about 1965 but not attributable to the airframe; it was believed the cadet, on his first solo, lost one of the lenses from his spectacles and was groping around to find it when it inadvertantly dived in.
We had two went in at Halton whilst I was there; the first from an incipient on short final where both occupants walked away and the second was a collision with the caravan where the front seat occupant got a broken leg.