463 crash
What on earth was somebody with 18 1/2 hrs doing in a Olympia 463?! I wasn't allowed anywhere near one till I had over 200hrs P1. When I bought my first glider, an Oly2b, with about 50 hrs P1, I had to elect an instructor with a Silver C to my 'syndicate' to get insurance. No 'senior pilot', no insurance. The 463 as a type seems to have had a lot of crashes over the years. Mind you, if low hours pilots are allowed to fly what is quite a tricky plane, maybe that's the reason. I can confirm that the crash of my old 463 only killed the tug pilot. The club CFI who was aboard the 463 was fairly badly hurt by landing in a tree but he lived to tell the tale.