Rowan Griffin wrote:
At 17:00 11 March 2006, Eric Greenwell wrote:


I didn't witness the accident I was thinking of but
the glider was observed doing a snap roll on the wire
and crashing inverted
- maybe the pilot reacted to the sudden loss of lift
by hauling the stick back?

What you have described is a stall /spin while during a winch launch.
Caused by too high an angle of attack -- for what ever reason.