On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 00:05:21 -0000, "W.J. \(Bill\) Dean \(U.K.\)."
wrote:

There have been many accidents of the types described,
insufficient energy to avoid a heavy landing after a launch failure,
and a spin entry after stalling during the first part of the launch.

See this example:
http://www.alexburger.de/sf/seilriss.avi

Pilot suffered only minor injury.

Bye
Andreas