Top marks to the tuggie for coming clean on this. Tug pilots need balls ( even if they are female ) they always hang on and get you to a safe height if they can, the vast majority are glider pilots themselves. But there comes to a point where their own safety gets to the dangerous point I was lucky having only got dumped once at 50 ft, no problem, but several could have gone wrong if the tug had lost power.
Sometimes sh1t happens and mistakes are made, we are trained to be perfect, but in my 30 years of gliding have known 5 fatalities and a lot more human errors that have got away with it without injury. Initially I didn't realise it was a K13 2 seater, if that is correct who was in the back, hopefully not an instructor!!.
There by the grace of God go I