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No firm report yet but that was the speculation.
In Canada the weight limit for Ultralights is fairly low, not sure what exactly. They must also be single seat and have various speed limitations etc. Advanced Ultralight, two seat, are limited, I think, to 1200 lbs. Tran Can have been a bit sticky about registering aircraft with lack of load capacity as ultralights for the last two or three years. One of our members had an ongoing battle as originally our amphibians (I think 1320 lbs amphib limit) were a registered ultralight buildable but with empty weights coming out around 920 to 950 lbs they said there was not sufficient load capacity for two adults and gas.
Ultralights, built to manufacturers spec or with manufacturer approved mods only do not require a final inspection by a Tran Can. inspector. "Amateur built," our equivalent of USA's "Experimental" do.
I don't have any idea about the circumstances of these two accidents beyond the newspapers' information which, so far, suggests they were in flight structural failure, one plane was older, one recent. Certainly the local safety figures for our amphibians are just as bad but none were in flight separation.
Witness reports, especially second hand through the newspapers, can be very misleading. "Bits exploded off the wing" may be as little as a separated aileron or as much as spar failure, we'll just have to wait and see.
I am not sure how many Jodels there are locally. This is very local to the last one. Maybe a group of Jodel enthusiasts in Courtney.