There was another collision.

It was over Farnborough airfield between a glider from the Farnborough
gliding club and a light aircraft from Blackbushe.

The Astir pilot baled out and landed safely on the airfield.

The power pilot flew back to Blackbushe with his pupil instead of landing on
the vast airfield underneath him.

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.).
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"Chris Rollings"
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I'm aware of one airplane/glider collision in the UK
not with 4 miles of the gliders base. A piston single
cruising at about 140 knots ran into the back of a
std cirrus on a straight glide. If I remember correctly the
glider pilot was probably killed by the aircrafts propeller.
I think the airplane pilot survived.

I'm also aware of one in the UK and one in the USA
where, although near the gliders base airports, both
involved transiting powered airplanes - so not 'landing
related'. In both cases the powered airplane removed
the outboard few feet of the gliders wing. Both gliders
landed safely, both airplane pilots were killed.

Some years ago, as part of a discussion with officialdom
about proposed increases in regulated airspace, I did
a calculation that suggested that incidents that one
might expect an airplane pilot to report as a near
miss (which I reckoned was passing within 500 feet
vertically and 300 yards horizontally of another aircraft
and not seeing early enough to take avoiding action)
would occur about 1000 times more often than actual
collisions.