"Janusz Kesik" wrote in message
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I just wonder how the student stupid had to be to not check the glider
throughly after noticing that the handle has gone.

Three thoughts:
1) I find it courious that the student was doing maintence work on the
glider. and...

2) In exactly the same situation, I wonder if I would have been sufficiently
courious to check all of the deep-dark spaces in the belly of the glider.
Frankly, I am afraid of the answer. Perhaps that is why we let A&P's do
that sort of thing? and...

3) In many gliders it is very difficult to inspect under the floorboards and
back in the tailcone, yet you never really know what may be lurking there,
tools, lost cellphones, critters, etc. I once saw a good-sized snake bail
out of a glider just as it was landing and then slink off quickly,
apparently none the worse for the experience. It was not the first flight
of the day for that ship.

Regards,
Vaughn





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